The transition from rifting to sea-floor spreading within a magma-poor rifted margin: Field and isotopic constraints

Terra Nova

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 156-162

  Schaltegger, Urs ^a,b   Desmurs, Laurent ^a   Manatschal, Gianreto ^a   Müntener, Othmar ^a   Meier, Martin ^a   Frank, Martin ^a   Bernoulli, Daniel ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ALPS; EUROPE; ITALY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0036295802     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2002.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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