Rapid exhumation of the Zermatt-Saas ophiolite deduced from high-precision Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr geochronology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 425-438

  Amato, Jeffrey M ^a   Johnson, Clark M ^a   Baumgartner, Lukas P ^a   Beard, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Eclogite; Exhumation; Geochronology; High pressure; Rb Sr; Sm Nd; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032804068     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00161-2     Document Type: Article

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