The South Millevaches Middle Carboniferous crustal melting and its place in the French Variscan belt

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 473-481

  Faure, Michel ^a   Be Mezeme, Eugène ^a,b   Cocherie, Alain ^b   Melleton, Jérémie ^a,b   Rossi, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Crustal melting; French massif central; Monazite u th pb chemical dating; Variscan belt

Indexed keywords

ANATEXIS; CARBONIFEROUS; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MIGMATITE; MONAZITE; PARTIAL MELTING;

FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL;

MICAS;

EID: 77949750969     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.180.6.473     Document Type: Article

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