Browsing by Subject "exhumation"

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Patterns of Late Cenozoic exhumation deduced from apatite and zircon U-He ages from Fiordland, New Zealand

House, Martha A.; Gurnis, Michael; Sutherland, Rupert; Kamp, Peter J.J. (American Geophysical Union, 2005)

New apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He ages from the Fiordland region of New Zealand's South Island expand on earlier results and provide new constraints on patterns of Late Cenozoic exhumation and cooling across this region. ...
Two-phase growth of high topography in eastern Tibet during the Cenozoic

Wang, E.; Kirby, E.; Furlong, Kevin P.; van Soest, M.; Xu, Ganquing; Shi, X; Kamp, Peter J.J.; Hodges, K.V. (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)

High topography in eastern Tibet is thought to have formed when deep crust beneath the central Tibetan Plateau flowed towards the plateau margin, causing crustal thickening and surface uplift(1,2). Rapid exhumation starting ...