New insights from 40Ar/ 39Ar laserprobe dating of white mica fabrics from the Pelion Massif, Pelagonian Zone, Internal Hellenides, Greece: implications for the timing of metamorphic episodes and tectonic events in the Aegean region

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 156, Issue , 1999, Pages 457-474

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

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; METAMORPHISM; MICA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

MICA;

EID: 0033380088     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.156.01.21     Document Type: Article

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