Composite P-T paths in the Internal Penninic Massifs of the Western Alps: Petrological constraints to their thermo-mechanical evolution

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 345-367

  Borghi, Alessandro ^a   Compagnoni, Roberto ^a   Sandrone, Riccardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine metamorphism; Internal penninic Nappes; P T estimates; P T paths; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; INTERNAL PENNINIC NAPPES; METAMORPHISM; P/T PATH; SUBDUCTION; THERMOMECHANICAL EVOLUTION;

ITALY, ALPS;

EID: 0029730020     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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