Data DOI: 10.1594/IEDA/100727
Citation:
Jason B Price, et al., (2018), Ar/Ar, Zircon Fission Track, Zircon (U-Th)/He, Apatite (U-Th)/He cooling ages from the Austroalpine-Pennine Transition Zone, Eastern Switzerland. Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA). doi:10.1594/IEDA/100727
Title:
Ar/Ar, Zircon Fission Track, Zircon (U-Th)/He, Apatite (U-Th)/He cooling ages from the Austroalpine-Pennine Transition Zone, Eastern Switzerland
Abstract:
This is original Ar/Ar, Zircon Fission Track, Zircon (U-Th)/He and Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometric data measured to supplement a raft of published thermochronometric data from the Central Alps (see Price, PhD thesis, 2017; Price et al., 2017). Rocks were collected along a N-S corridor from the latitude of approximately Klosters (Madrisahorn) to Septimer and Maloja passes in eastern Switzerland. These data, coupled with published data, demonstrate that the Pennine Zone was descending through Ar/Ar and ZFT closure temperatures (>c. 240°C) at the same time as the Austroalpine was sitting at AHe (c. 70°C) closure temperature. The observed thermal mismatch suggests that the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary is a normal fault.
Other Description:
Price et al., 2017, Thermochronometry across the Austroalpine-Pennine boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland: Documenting orogen-perpendicular normal fault slip on the world’s largest ‘overthrust’, Tectonics, v. , p. .
Creator(s):
Jason B Price
Brian P Wernicke
Kenneth A Farley
Michael A Cosca
Date Available:
2018-05-01
Date Created:
2017-10-18
Keyword(s):
Regional (Continents, Oceans) (coverage scope)
Central Alps, Madrisahorn, Schanfigg Valley, Prättigau Valley, Lenzerheide, Weissfluh, Val Turba, Juf, Septimer Pass, Maloja Pass, Engadine Valley, Oberhalbstein Valley, Splügen (geographic location)
Resource Type:
Dataset
File Format(s):
application/zip
Funding source(s):
National Science Foundation: 1451055
Data Curated by:
Version:
1.0
Language:
en
License:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0] URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/