Eastern Alpine tectono-metamorphic evolution: Constraints from two-dimensional P-T-t modeling

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 584-604

  Genser, Johann ^a   Van Wees, J D ^b   Cloetingh, S ^b   Neubauer, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; METAMORPHISM; P/T/T PATH; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AUSTRIA, ALPS, TAUERN WINDOW; EUROPE, ALPS;

EID: 0030456112     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC03289     Document Type: Article

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