Pre-Variscan deformation, metamorphism and magmatism in the Strona-Ceneri Zone (southern Alps of northern Italy and southern Switzerland)

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 361-380

  Zurbriggen, Roger ^a   Franz, Leander ^b   Handy, Mark R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatexis; Exhumation; Ordovician granitoids; Paleozoic tectonics; Southern Alps; Strona Ceneri Zone; Subduction

Indexed keywords

ANATEXIS; DEFORMATION; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; SUBDUCTION; TECTONICS;

ITALY, ALPS, STRONA-CENERI ZONE; SWITZERLAND, ALPS, STRONA-CENERI ZONE;

EID: 0031462751     PISSN: 00367699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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