Precollisional, multistage exhumation of subducted continental crust: The Sesia Zone, western Alps

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Babist, J ^a   Handy, M R ^a   Konrad Schmolke, M ^a   Hammerschmidt, K ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUESCHIST FACIES; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; ECLOGITE; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; GREENSCHIST FACIES; JURASSIC; NAPPE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RIFTING; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; THRUST; TRANSPRESSION;

ADRIATIC SEA; ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SESIA VALLEY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

SESIA;

EID: 34248587503     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001927     Document Type: Article

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