Magma pulses in the central Variscan belt: episodic melt generation and emplacement during lithospheric thinning

Terra Nova

Volumn 9, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 242-245

  Schaltegger, Urs ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MAGMATISM; OROGENIC BELT;

EUROPE; VARISCIDES;

EID: 0031370688     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1997.tb00021.x     Document Type: Article

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