Poly-orogenic multi-stage metamorphic evolution inferred via P-T pseudosections: An example from Aspromonte Massif basement rocks (Southern Calabria, Italy)

Lithos

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 466-502

  Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a   Ortolano, Gaetano ^a   Pezzino, Antonino ^a   Punturo, Rosalda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabrian Peloritani Orogen; Metapelite; P T pseudosection; Variscan and Alpine metamorphism

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CRUSTAL THICKENING; GEODYNAMICS; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; METAMORPHISM; METAPELITE; NAPPE; OROGENIC BELT; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PETROGRAPHY;

CALABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649103819     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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