Short-lived, fast erosional exhumation of the internal western alps during the late early oligocene: Constraints from geothermochronology of pro-and retro-side foreland basin sediments

Lithosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 211-225

  Jourdan, Sébastien ^a   Bernet, Matthias ^a   Tricart, Pierre ^a   Hardwick, Elizabeth ^a   Paquette, Jean Louis ^b   Dumont, Thierry ^a   Schwartz, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; EROSION; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONVERGENCE DIRECTIONS; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; TECTONIC PROCESS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; ZIRCON FISSION TRACKS;

FISSION REACTIONS;

APATITE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONVERGENCE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FORELAND BASIN; MANTLE PLUME; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

ALPS; APENNINES; ITALY; IVREA-VERBANO ZONE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 84877116518     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L243.1     Document Type: Article

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