Pressure-temperature evolution of the late hercynian calabria continental crust: Compatibility with post-collisional extensional tectonics

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 502-514

  Caggianelli, Alfredo ^a   Liotta, Domenico ^a   Prosser, Giacomo ^b   Ranalli, Giorgio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; EMPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRANITOID; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; METAMORPHISM; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PETROLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 36549084630     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00777.x     Document Type: Review

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