Mylonitization, dry shearing and the exhumation of the former lower crust: The Curinga-Girifalco Line (Calabria, South Italy)

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 230, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 359-390

  Spiegel, Cornelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; EXHUMATION; FACIES ANALYSIS; LOWER CRUST; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MYLONITIZATION; SHEAR ZONE;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 1642487751     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/230/2003/359     Document Type: Article

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