Timing of dextral strike-slip processes and basement exhumation in the Elbe Zone (Saxo-Thuringian Zone): The final pulse of the Variscan Orogeny in the Bohemian Massif constrained by LA-SF-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon data

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 327, Issue , 2009, Pages 197-214

  Hofmann, M ^a   Linnemann, U ^a   Gerdes, A ^b   Ullrich, B ^c   Schauer, M ^d  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; BASEMENT ROCK; DEFORMATION; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MARINE SEDIMENT; NAPPE; PLUTON; SEDIMENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TOURNAISIAN; UPLIFT;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; GERMANY; MEISSEN; SAXONY;

EID: 75249089027     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP327.10     Document Type: Article

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