Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic oceanic crust from Lago di Cignana, Piemontese zone, western Alps: The structural record in metabasites

Lithos

Volumn 41, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 79-102

  Van Der Klauw, S N G C ^a   Reinecke, T ^a   Stockhert B ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Lago di Cignana; Metabasites; Oceanic crust; Piemontese zone; Structural record in metabasites; Ultrahigh pressure metamorphic oceanic crust; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; METABASITES; OCEANIC CRUST; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE;

ITALY;

EID: 0031400232     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0024-4937(97)82006-3     Document Type: Article

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