Contemporaneous plutonism and strike-slip faulting: A case study from the Tonale fault zone north of the Adamello pluton (Italian Alps)

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Stipp, M ^a   Fugenschuh B ^a   Gromet, L P ^b   Stunitz H ^a   Schmid, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine orogeny; Contact metamorphism; Dating; Intrusion; Recrystallization; Strike slip faulting

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLUTONISM; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONICS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TONALE FAULT ZONE;

EID: 6044234610     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003TC001515     Document Type: Article

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