Metamorphic evolution of preserved Hercynian crustal section in the Serre Massif (Calabria-Peloritani Orogen, southern Italy)

Lithos

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 237-262

  Angì, Gerolamo ^a   Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a   Fazio, Eugenio ^a   Fiannacca, Patrizia ^a   Ortolano, Gaetano ^a   Pezzino, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabria; Hercynian metamorphism; P T pseudosection; Quartz c axis; Serre Massif

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LEUCOGRANITE; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC BELT; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PETROLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

CALABRIAN ARC; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; MESSINA [SICILY]; PELORITANI MOUNTAINS; SALERNO; SERRE; SICILY;

EID: 76349103949     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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