Pseudotachylytes in the Balmuccia peridotite (Ivrea Zone) as markers of the exhumation of the southern Alpine continental crust

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-77

  Souquiere F ^a   Fabbri, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-TYPE ROCK; CONTINENTAL CRUST; EXHUMATION; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OROGENY; PERIDOTITE; PERMIAN; PETROLOGY; TRANSTENSION;

ITALY; IVREA-VERBANO ZONE;

EID: 73549108309     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00918.x     Document Type: Article

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