Pliocene-Pleistocene HT-LP metamorphism during multiple granitic intrusions in the southern branch of the Larderello geothermal field (southern Tuscany, Italy)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 247-262

  Rossetti, F ^a   Balsamo, F ^a   Villa, I M ^b,c   Bouybaouenne, M ^d   Faccenna, C ^a   Funiciello, R ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; GRANITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LOW PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; P-T-T PATH; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LARDERELLO; PISA [TUSCANY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EID: 38949109320     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-132     Document Type: Article

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