Exhumation of the Saualpe eclogite unit, Eastern Alps: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar ages and structural investigations

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 149-180

  Wiesinger, M ^a   Neubauer, F ^a   Handler, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CAMPANIAN; CRETACEOUS; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; HIGH PRESSURE; NORMAL FAULT; OVERBURDEN; SANTONIAN; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS;

EID: 33748275094     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-006-0154-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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