Fission-track constraints on Jurassic folding and thrusting in southern Mongolia and their relationship to the Beishan thrust belt of northern China

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 194, Issue , 2001, Pages 215-229

  Dumitru, Trevor A ^a   Hendrix, Marc S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EROSION; ISOTHERMS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

APATITE FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY; COOLING HISTORY; FISSION TRACK AGES; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE JURASSIC; MIDDLE JURASSIC; NORTHERN CHINA; THRUST SYSTEMS;

FISSION REACTIONS;

FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OROGENIC BELT; PERMIAN; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST FAULT;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 84871190393     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1194-0.215     Document Type: Article

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