Relics of pre-Alpine ophiolites in the Serie dei Laghi (Western Southern Alps)

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-207

  Origoni, Evelina Giobbi ^a   Zappone, Alba ^a   Boriani, Attilio ^a   Bocchio, Rosangela ^a   Morten, Lauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Geochemistry; Ophiolite; Serie dei Laghi; Southern Alps; Variscan metamorphism

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AMPHIBOLITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHISM; OPHIOLITE; VARISCAN;

ITALY, ALPS; SWITZERLAND, TICINO;

EID: 0031442869     PISSN: 00367699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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