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House et al. 2005
House, M.A., Gurnis, M., Sutherland, R. and Kamp, P.J.J. (2005). Patterns of Late Cenozoic exhumation deduced from apatite and zircon U-He ages from Fiordland, New Zealand. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 6: doi: 10.1029/2005GC000968. issn: 1525-2027.

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. Zircon (U-Th)/He cooling ages, in combination with increased density of apatite ages, show that in addition to a gradual northward decrease in cooling ages that was seen during an earlier phase of this study, there is also a trend toward younger cooling ages to the east. Distinct breaks in cooling age patterns on southwestern Fiordland appear to be correlated to the location of previously mapped faults. The northward decrease in ages may reflect asynchronous cooling related to migration in the locus of exhumation driven by subduction initiation, or it may reflect synchronous regional exhumation that exposed different structural levels across Fiordland, or some combination of these effects. In either case, differential exhumation accommodated by major and minor faults that dissect Fiordland basement rocks apparently played an important role in producing the resulting age patterns.

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Keywords
Geochronology, Geomorphological geochronology, Geochronology, Thermochronology, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Subduction zone processes (1031, 3613, 8170, 8413), exhumation, Fiordland, helium, New Zealand, subduction, thermochronology
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Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
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American Geophysical Union
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