Permia zircon U-Pb ages in the Gran Paradiso massif: Revisiting post-Variscan events in the Western Alps

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-29

  Bertrand, Jean Michel ^a,b   Paquette, Jean Louis ^c   Guillot, François ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b Université B Pascal ^*  (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Gran Paradiso; Paleogeography; Permian; Pre Alpine basement; Protolith ages; Zircon dating

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; BASEMENT ROCK; DEFORMATION; DOME; ECLOGITE; GRANITOID; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; ORTHOGNEISS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERMIAN; PROTOLITH; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GRAIAN ALPS; GRAN PARADISO; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846226947     PISSN: 00367699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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