Variscan dextral transpression in the French Pyrenees: New data from the Pic des Trois-Seigneurs granodiorite and its country rocks

Tectonophysics

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 331-345

  Leblanc, D ^a   Gleizes, G ^a   Roux, L ^a   Bouchez, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; METAMORPHISM; PLUTON; SHEARING; VARISCAN;

FRANCE, PYRENEES, PIC DES TROIS-SEIGNEURS;

EID: 0030430779     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00174-3     Document Type: Article

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