Exhumation and relief development in the Pelvoux and Dora-Maira massifs (western Alps) assessed by spectral analysis and inversion of thermochronological age transects

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Beucher, Romain ^a,b   Van Der Beek, Peter ^a   Braun, Jean ^a   Batt, Geoffrey E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; KINEMATICS; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; RELIEF; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TERTIARY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ALPS; DORA MAIRA MASSIF; FRANCE; ITALY; PELVOUX MASSIF; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 84876566057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002240     Document Type: Article

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