U-Pb dating of magmatic zircon and metamorphic baddeleyite in the Ligurian eclogites (Voltri Massif, Western Alps)

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-355

  Rubatto, Daniela ^a   Scambelluri, Marco ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BADDELEYITE; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; ECLOGITE; JURASSIC; OLIGOCENE; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; SHRIMP DATING;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 0346432461     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-003-0502-x     Document Type: Article

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