Internal morphology, habit and U-Th-Pb microanalysis of amphibolite-to-granulite facies zircons: Geochronology of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps)

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 380-404

  Vavra, Gerhard ^a   Schmid, Rolf ^b   Gebauer, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0001298522     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050492     Document Type: Article

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