Subduction-related metamorphism in the Alps: Review of isotopic ages based on petrology and their geodynamic consequences

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 298, Issue , 2008, Pages 117-144

  Berger, Alfons ^a   Bousquet, Romain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUESCHIST FACIES; ECLOGITE; GEODYNAMICS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PROGRADATION; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SHRIMP DATING; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ZIRCON;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

SCHISTES;

EID: 51349105453     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP298.7     Document Type: Review

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