Erratum: The exhumation of the western Greater Caucasus: Thermochronometric study (Geological Magazine (2010) DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000257);The exhumation of the western Greater Caucasus: A thermochronometric study

Geological Magazine

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-21

  Vincent, Stephen J ^a   Carter, Andrew ^b   Lavrishchev, Vladimir A ^c   Rice, Samuel P ^a   Barabadze, Teimuraz G ^d   Hovius, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Kavkazgeols'emka   (Russian Federation)

^d GEORGIAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Caucasus; Dziruli Massif; exhumation; fission track; uplift

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; EARTHQUAKES; EROSION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

CAUCASUS; DZIRULI MASSIF; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK; UPLIFT;

FISSION REACTIONS;

CENOZOIC; EROSION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; JURASSIC; SEDIMENT CORE; SEISMICITY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT;

CAUCASUS;

EID: 84879200185     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000865     Document Type: Erratum

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