Formation, subduction, and exhumation of Penninic oceanic crust in the Eastern Alps: Time constraints from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

Tectonophysics

Volumn 394, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 155-170

  Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a   Dingeldey, Christian ^a   Miller, Christine ^b   Hacker, Bradley R ^c   McWilliams, Michael O ^d  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alps; Ar Ar geochronology; Exhumation; Penninic unit of the Eastern Alps; Spreading; Subduction

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC; OCEANIC CRUST; PETROGENESIS; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 10244278048     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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