Looking inside late Variscan tectonics: Structural and metamorphic heterogeneity of the Eastern Southalpine Basement (NE Italy)

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-32

  Benciolini, Luca ^a   Poli, M Eliana ^a   Visonà, Dario ^b   Zanferrari, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eastern Southern Alps; Orogenic collapse; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

HERCYNIAN OROGENY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; PLUTON; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ALPS; AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 33745727148     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/ga.19.17-32     Document Type: Article

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