Textural features and fabric analysis of granitoids emplaced at different depths: the example of the Hercynian tonalites and granodiorites from Calabria

Mineralogica et Petrographica Acta

Volumn 40, Issue , 1997, Pages 11-26

  Caggianelli, Alfredo ^a   Prosser, Giacomo ^a   Di Battista, Patrizia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITOID; GRANODIORITE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; TONALITE;

ITALY;

EID: 0031544823     PISSN: 05401437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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