Kinematic reworking and exhumation within the convergent Alpine Orogen

Tectonophysics

Volumn 365, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 77-102

  Reddy, S M ^a   Wheeler, J ^b   Butler, R W H ^c   Cliff, R A ^c   Freeman, S ^c   Inger, S ^d   Pickles, C ^d   Kelley, S P ^e  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deformation; Eclogite; Extension; Rb Sr; Shear zone; Tectonics; Thermochronology; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; OROGENY; REWORKING; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ALPS; EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 0037694033     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00017-9     Document Type: Article

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