40Ar/39Ar muscovite dates from the nappe region of southwestern Norway: Dating extensional deformation in the Scandinavian Caledonides

Tectonophysics

Volumn 285, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 119-133

  Fossen, Haakon ^a   Dallmeyer, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caledonides; Extension; Geochronology; Norway; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; NAPPE; TECTONICS;

NORWAY, CALEDONIDES;

EID: 0031830983     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00187-X     Document Type: Article

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