Laramide exhumation of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: An apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology study

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-30

  Crowley, Peter D ^a   Reiners, Peter W ^a   Reuter, Joanna M ^a   Kaye, Grant D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn Mountains; Dating; Exhumation; Geochronology; Helium; U Th

Indexed keywords

THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CATCHMENTS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEFORMATION; GEOTHERMAL HEATING; HELIUM; RIVERS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

GEOLOGY;

DATING METHOD; EXHUMATION; LARAMIDE OROGENY; PHANEROZOIC; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879884356     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0027:LEOTBM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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