Late-orogenic heating during exhumation: Alpine PTt trajectories and thermomechanical models

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 185-199

  Brouwer, F M ^a   van de Zedde, D M A ^b   Wortel, M J R ^b   Vissers, R L M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alps; Gran Paradiso; Lepontine; Metamorphism; Slab detachment; Thermomechanical model

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; P-T CONDITIONS; THERMOMECHANICS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 1842533166     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00050-0     Document Type: Article

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