40Ar/39Ar laser-probe dating of detrital white micas from Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of the Eastern Alps: Evidence for Variscan high-pressure metamorphism and implications for Alpine orogeny

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 691-694

  Von Eynatten, Hilmar ^a   Gaupp, Reinhard ^a   Wijbrans, Jan R ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; MINERAL RESOURCES; OXIDE MINERALS; PROBES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCON;

CHROME-SPINELS; DETRITAL WHITE MICA; HEAVY MINERALS; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; METAMORPHIC BASEMENTS; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SOURCE ROCKS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ALPINE OROGENY; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRETACEOUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; MICA; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; HEAVY MINERAL; PROVENANCE; VARISCAN METAMORPHISM;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0030450636     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0691:AALPDO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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