Oligocene-miocene burial and exhumation of the southern pyrenean foreland quantified by low-temperature thermochronology

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-77

  Fillon, Charlotte ^a   Gautheron, Cécile ^b   van der Beek, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; LATE EOCENE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PYRENEES; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT SOURCES; THERMAL HISTORY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRIASSIC; URANIUM CONTENTS;

DEPOSITS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE; URANIUM;

SEDIMENTS;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CONGLOMERATE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXHUMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM;

PYRENEES; SPAIN; TREMP-GRAUS BASIN;

GRAUS;

EID: 84871852375     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2012-051     Document Type: Article

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