Late thermal evolution of the Oman Mountains subophiolitic windows apatite fission-track thermochronology

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1139-1142

  Poupeau, Gerard ^a   Saddiqi, Omar ^b   Michard, André ^c   Goffé, Bruno ^c   Oberhänsli, Roland ^d  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES AIN CHOCK   (Morocco)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; EROSION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEA LEVEL; TEMPERATURE;

APATITE FISSION TRACK AGES; APATITE FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY; CONTINENTAL ORIGIN; DENUDATION RATES; EROSION PROCESS; LOW TEMPERATURES; STRUCTURAL LEVELS; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

FISSION REACTIONS;

BASEMENT ROCK; CENOZOIC; FISSION TRACK DATING; OPHIOLITE; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

OMAN;

EID: 84879884887     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<1139:LTEOTO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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