Geochronologic, petrologic and kinematic constraints on the evolution of the Err-Platta boundary, part of a fossil continent-ocean suture in the Alps (eastern Switzerland)

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 453-474

  Handy, Mark R ^a   Herwegh, Marco ^b   Kamber, Balz S ^b   Tietz, Reto ^b   Villa, Igor M ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ar Ar method; Continent ocean suture; Grisons; K Ar method; Metamorphism; Nappe tectonics; Penninic Austroalpine boundary; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ARGON/ARGON DATING; CRETACEOUS; NAPPE TECTONICS; POTASSIUM/ARGON DATING; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE ZONE;

SWITZERLAND, ALPS;

EID: 0030428076     PISSN: 00367699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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