Coupling of oceanic and continental crust during Eocene eclogite-facies metamorphism: Evidence from the Monte Rosa nappe, western Alps

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-157

  Lapen, Thomas J ^a,d   Johnson, Clark M ^a   Baumgartner, Lukas P ^a   Piaz, Giorgio V Dal ^c   Skora, Susanne ^b   Beard, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; ECLOGITE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; METAMORPHISM; NAPPE; OCEANIC CRUST; P-T-T PATH;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 33845880375     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-006-0144-x     Document Type: Article

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