Termination of major ductile strike-slip shear and differential cooling along the Insubric line (Central Alps): U-Pb, Rb-Sr and 40Ar/ 39Ar ages of cross-cutting pegmatites

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 331-351

  Schärer, Urs ^a   Cosca, Michael ^b   Steck, Albrecht ^b   Hunziker, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Ar 40 Ar 39; Central Alps; Pegmatite; Rb 87 Sr 86; Shear; Tectonics; U 238 Pb 204

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; COOLING RATE; DEFORMATION; PEGMATITE; RUBIDIUM/STRONTIUM DATING; URANIUM/LEAD DATING;

EUROPE, ALPS, INSUBRIC LINE;

EID: 0030517154     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00104-5     Document Type: Article

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