Dating microstructures by the 40Ar/39Ar step-heating technique: Deformation-pressure-temperature-time history of the Penninic Units of the Western Alps

Lithos

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 801-819

  Beltrando, Marco ^a   Lister, Gordon S ^a   Forster, Marnie ^a   Dunlap, W James ^a   Fraser, Geoff ^b   Hermann, Jörg ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alps; Fabric overprint; Geochronology; Metamorphism; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; ECLOGITE; FOLDING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GREENSCHIST FACIES; MICA; P-T CONDITIONS; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; URTIER VALLEY; VALLE D'AOSTA; WESTERN ALPS;

MICAS;

EID: 70449090026     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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