Meso-Cenozoic building of the northern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Thermotectonic history of the Tuva region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 621, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-59

  De Grave, Johan ^a   De Pelsmaeker, Elien ^a   Zhimulev, Fedor I ^b   Glorie, Stijn ^c   Buslov, Mikhail M ^b   Van den haute, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apatite fission track dating; Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Siberia; Thermochronology; Tuva

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FAULTING; FISSION REACTIONS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT; SIBERIA; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TUVA;

BUILDINGS;

APATITE; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MESOZOIC; NEOGENE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOGENE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CENTRAL ASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TUVA;

EID: 84898799277     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.01.039     Document Type: Article

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