A two-stage exhumation of the Variscan crust: U-Pb LA-ICP-MS and Rb-Sr ages from Greater Kabylia, Maghrebides

Terra Nova

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 299-307

  Hammor, D ^a,b   Bosch, Delphine ^b   Caby, R ^b   Bruguier, O ^b  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; RIFTING; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; SHEAR ZONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; GREAT KABYLIA; KABYLIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 33748877945     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00693.x     Document Type: Article

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