Dating deformation using Rb-Sr in white mica: Greenschist facies deformation ages from the Entrelor shear zone, Italian Alps

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-76

  Freeman, S R ^a   Inger, S ^a   Butler, R W H ^a   Cliff, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; ISOTOPES; KINEMATICS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); RUBIDIUM;

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; CLOSURE TEMPERATURES; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; GRAIN BOUNDARY NETWORK; MICROSTRUCTURAL TEXTURE; SR ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; YOUNGER GENERATIONS;

SILICATE MINERALS;

DEFORMATION; GREENSCHIST FACIES; MICA; RUBIDIUM/STRONTIUM DATING; SHEAR FABRIC;

ITALY, ALPS;

EID: 0030844781     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC02477     Document Type: Article

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