Eclogite meso-and microfabrics: Implications for the burial and exhumation history of eclogites in the Tauern Window (Eastern Alps) from P-T-d paths

Tectonophysics

Volumn 285, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 183-209

  Kurz, Walter ^a,b   Neubauer, Franz ^a   Dachs, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Eastern Alps; Eclogites; Microfabric; P T d path; Tauern Window

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; MICRO STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031876791     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00188-1     Document Type: Article

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