Fission track analysis and its applications to geological problems

K Gallagher, R Brown, C Johnson - Annual Review of Earth and …, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Fission track analysis as a geological dating tool was first proposed in the early
1960s. The past 10 years has seen a major expansion in application to more general …

Late stages of continent-continent collision: Timing, kinematic evolution, and exhumation of the Northern rim (Aar Massif) of the Alps

M Herwegh, A Berger, C Glotzbach… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Alpine front's External Crystalline Massifs represent exhumation of mid-crustal
basement during late-stage continent-continent collision. We unravel the geodynamic …

Apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry: methods and applications to problems in tectonic and surface processes

TA Ehlers, KA Farley - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
In the last decade apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronometry has emerged as an important tool
for quantifying the cooling history of rocks as they pass through the upper 1–3 km of the …

Strain, deformation temperatures and vorticity of flow at the top of the Greater Himalayan Slab, Everest Massif, Tibet

RD Law, MP Searle… - Journal of the …, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This paper presents quantitative data on strain, deformation temperatures and vorticity of
flow at the top of the Greater Himalayan Slab. The data were collected from the Tibetan side …

The role of viscous heating in Barrovian metamorphism of collisional orogens: thermomechanical models and application to the Lepontine Dome in the Central Alps

JP Burg, TV Gerya - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal models for Barrovian metamorphism driven by doubling the thickness of the
radiogenic crust typically meet difficulty in accounting for the observed peak metamorphic …

[图书][B] Geodynamics of the Lithosphere

K Stüwe - 2002 - Springer
The large scale structure of the earth is caused by geodynamic processes which are
explained using energetic, kinematic and dynamic descriptions. While" geodynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Ivrea mantle wedge, arc of the Western Alps, and kinematic evolution of the Alps–Apennines orogenic system

SM Schmid, E Kissling, T Diehl… - Swiss Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The construction of five crustal-scale profiles across the Western Alps and the Ivrea mantle
wedge integrates up-to-date geological and geophysical information and reveals important …

The arc of the western Alps in the light of geophysical data on deep crustal structure

SM Schmid, E Kissling - Tectonics, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, two international deep seismic campaigns in the western and central Alps (Etude
Continentale et Océanique par Reflexion et Refraction Sismique‐Progetto Strategico Crosta …

A map-view restoration of the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic system for the Early Miocene

K Ustaszewski, SM Schmid, B FüGENSCHUH… - Swiss journal of …, 2008 - Springer
A map-view palinspastic restoration of tectonic units in the Alps, Carpathians and Dinarides
reveals the plate tectonic configuration before the onset of Miocene to recent deformations …

Time-dependent effects of heat advection and topography on cooling histories during erosion

NS Mancktelow, B Grasemann - Tectonophysics, 1997 - Elsevier
Both erosion and surface topography cause a time-dependent variation in isotherm
geometry that can result in significant errors in estimating natural exhumation rates from …