40Ar/39Ar laserprobe direct dating of discrete deformational events: A continuous record of early Alpine tectonics in the Pelagonian Zone, NW Aegean area, Greece

Tectonophysics

Volumn 298, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 133-153

  Lips, A L W ^a,b   White, S H ^a   Wijbrans, J R ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar laserprobe dating; Aegean; Alpine tectonics; Blueschist; Deformation

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; COLLISION ZONE; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032582997     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00181-4     Document Type: Article

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