Onset of magmatic accretion within a magma-poor rifted margin: A case study from the Platta ocean-continent transition, eastern Switzerland

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 365-382

  Desmurs, Laurent ^a   Müntener, Othmar ^b   Manatschal, Gianreto ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c Et Université de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; EXHUMATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; PETROLOGY;

ALPS; ERR NAPPE; PLATTA NAPPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0036919775     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-002-0403-4     Document Type: Article

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