Structure and PT estimates across late-collisional plutons: Constraints on the exhumation of western Alpine continental HP units

International Geology Review

Volumn 52, Issue 10-12, 2010, Pages 1244-1267

  Zanoni, Davide ^a   Iole Spalla, M ^b   Gosso, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

contact metamorphic aureole; late orogenic magmatism; pre intrusive versus post intrusive exhumation; Sesia Lanzo Zone; western Alps

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DECOMPRESSION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FOLD; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; P-T CONDITIONS; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ALPS; WESTERN ALPS;

SESIA;

EID: 77954289360     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2010.482357     Document Type: Article

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