Post-variscan mafic dikes from the late orogenic collapse to the Tethyan rift : Evidence from Sardinia

Ofioliti

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-37

  Gaggero, Laura ^a   Oggiano, Giacomo ^b   Buzzi, Laura ^a   Slejko, Francesca ^c   Cortesogno, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar geochronology; Lithospheric extension; Mantle; Permo triassic; Sardinia; Sr Nd systematics; Transitional basalts

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BATHOLITH; COLLAPSE; DIABASE; DIACHRONISM; DIKE; LAMPROPHYRE; MAFIC ROCK; NEODYMIUM; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; RIFT ZONE; STEPHANIAN; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TETHYS; TRIASSIC;

CORSE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; ITALY; MOUNT NIEDDU; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 56549113207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 03912612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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