Magmatic fabrics and emplacement of the cone-sheet-bearing Knížecí Stolec durbachitic pluton (Moldanubian Unit, Bohemian Massif): Implications for mid-crustal reworking of granulitic lower crust in the Central European Variscides

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-33

  Verner, Kryštof ^a,b   Žák, Jiří ^a,b   Nahodilová, Radmila ^a   Holub, František V ^b  

^a CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Durbachite; Emplacement; Exhumation; Granulite; Moldanubian Unit; Pluton

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GRANULITE; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; P-T CONDITIONS; PLUTON; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 38049087037     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-006-0153-z     Document Type: Article

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