The Saxo-Danubian Granite Belt: Magmatic response to post-collisional delamination of mantle lithosphere below the southwestern sector of the Bohemian Massif (Variscan orogen)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 205-212

  Finger, Fritz ^a   Gerdes, Axel ^b   René, Miloš ^c   Riegler, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ROCK STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bohemian Massif; Delamination; Granites; Saxo Danubian Granite Belt; Variscan orogen

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; COLLISION ZONE; DELAMINATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70349479445     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10096-009-0014-3     Document Type: Article

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