A new geodynamic interpretation for the South Portuguese Zone (SW Iberia) and the Iberian Pyrite Belt genesis

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Onézime, Jérôme ^a   Charvet, Jacques ^a   Faure, Michel ^a   Bourdier, Jean Louis ^a   Chauvet, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

M lange; Pyrite; Tectonics; Variscan belt; VMS; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; METALLOGENESIS; PETROGENESIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONOPHYSICS;

IBERIAN PYRITE BELT; PORTUGAL;

EID: 0345581725     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001387     Document Type: Article

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