Exhumation and deformation history of the lower crustal section of the Valstrona di Omegna in the Ivrea Zone, southern Alps

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 298, Issue , 2008, Pages 45-68

  Siegesmund, S ^a   Layer, P ^b   Dunkl, I ^a   Vollbrecht, A ^a   Steenken, A ^c   Wemmer, K ^a   Ahrendt, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CATACLASITE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LOWER CRUST; MYLONITE; P-T CONDITIONS; SHEAR ZONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; IVREA-VERBANO ZONE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 51349115700     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP298.3     Document Type: Article

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