Variscan migmatites, eclogites and garnet-peridotites of the Ulten zone, Eastern Austroalpine system

Tectonophysics

Volumn 259, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 313-341

  Godard, G ^a   Martin, S ^b   Prosser, G ^c   Kienast, J R ^a   Morten, L ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^d Dipartimento di Mineralogiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTROALPINE SYSTEM; ECLOGITE; METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION; MIGMATITE; PERIDOTITE;

ITALY, TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE;

EID: 0030482698     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00145-X     Document Type: Article

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