Orogen-parallel tectonic transport in the Variscan belt of northeastern Sardinia (Italy): Implications for the exhumation of medium-pressure metamorphic rocks

Geological Magazine

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 497-511

  Carosi, Rodolfo ^a   Palmeri, Rosaria ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basement tectonics; Hercynian Orogeny; Shear zones; Structural geology; Transpression

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; TECTONICS;

GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; SHEAR ZONE; STRETCHING LINEATIONS; TECTONIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASEMENT ROCK; COLLISION ZONE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OROGENY; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TRANSPRESSION;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

EID: 0036766060     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756802006763     Document Type: Article

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