Age of Variscan magmatism from the Balkan sector of the orogen, central Bulgaria

Lithos

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 125-147

  Carrigan, Charles W ^a,d   Mukasa, Samuel B ^a   Haydoutov, Ivan ^b   Kolcheva, Kristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^d OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balkan; Bulgaria; Granitoids; Sredna Gora; U Pb geochronology; Variscan Orogeny; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MAGMATISM;

BULGARIA; CARPATHIANS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

MICA;

EID: 18244405313     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2004.12.010     Document Type: Article

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