Thermal history of the Carnic Alps (Southern Alps, Austria) and its palaeogeographic implications

Tectonophysics

Volumn 272, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 213-232

  Rantitsch, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Burial metamorphism; Carnic Alps; Paleogeography; Southern Alps; Thermal history

Indexed keywords

BURIAL METAMORPHISM; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; THERMAL HISTORY;

AUSTRIA, ALPS, CARNIC ALPS;

EID: 0030733661     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00259-4     Document Type: Article

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