From subduction to collision: Thermal overprint of HP/LT meta-sediments in the north-eastern Lepontine Dome (Swiss Alps) and consequences regarding the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Alpine orogenic wedge

Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 101, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Wiederkehr, Michael ^a,b   Bousquet, Romain ^b   Schmid, Stefan M ^a   Berger, Alfons ^c  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine tectonics; Barrovian metamorphism; Fe Mg carpholite; High pressure metamorphism; Lepontine dome; Meta sediments

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HEAT TRANSFER; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENT; OVERPRINTING; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; LEPONTINE ALPS;

EID: 57849134520     PISSN: 16618726     EISSN: 16618734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-008-1289-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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