Coupling forward modelling of garnet growth with monazite geochronology: An application to the Rappold Complex (Austroalpine crystalline basement)

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 775-793

  Gaidies, F ^a   Krenn, E ^b   De Capitani, C ^a   Abart, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Austroalpine basement; Metapelite; Polymetamorphism; Resorption

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METAMORPHISM; METAPELITE; MONAZITE; PERMIAN;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 48749103466     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2008.00787.x     Document Type: Article

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