The Val Malenco lower crust - upper mantle complex and its field relations (Italian Alps)

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 475-500

  Müntener, Othmar ^a   Hermann, Jörg ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central Alps (N. Italy); Crust mantle transition; Gabbro; Granulite facies; Permian; Ultramafic rock; Underplating; Val Malenco

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUST; MANTLE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; UNDERPLATING;

ITALY, ALPS, VAL MALENCO;

EID: 0030428232     PISSN: 00367699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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