Introduction: Detrital thermochronology

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 378, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Bernet, Matthias ^a,c   Spiegel, Cornelia ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; DATING METHOD; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 84870936667     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2378-7.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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