Electron-microprobe dating of monazites from Western Carpathian basement granitoids: Plutonic evidence for an important Permian rifting event subsequent to Variscan crustal anatexis

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 86-98

  Finger, F ^a   Broska, I ^b   Haunschmid, B ^a   Hrasko, L ^c   Kohut M ^c   Krenn, E ^a   Petrik I ^b   Riegler, G ^a   Uher, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c Geological Survey of Slovak Republic   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Granitoids; Monazite; Permian rifting; Variscan orogeny; Western Carpathians

Indexed keywords

ANATEXIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MONAZITE; RIFTING;

CARPATHIANS; EUROPE;

EID: 0037358127     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-002-0300-0     Document Type: Article

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