Miocene to Messinian deformation and hydrothermal activity in a pre-Alpine basement massif of the French western Alps: New U-Th-Pb and argon ages from the Lauzière massif

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 227-241

  Gasquet, Dominique ^a   Bertrand, Jean Michel ^b   Paquette, Jean Louis ^c   Lehmann, Jérémie ^d   Ratzov, Gueorgui ^e   Ascenção De Guedes, Roger A ^f   Tiepolo, Massimo ^g   Boullier, Anne Marie ^b   Scaillet, Stéphane ^h   Nomade, Sébastien ^h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UMR 7063   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^f Glavenas ^*  (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^h LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

External crystalline; Hydrothermal veins; Lauzi re; Miocene; U Pb and Ar Ar geochronology; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; MIOCENE; MONAZITE; QUARTZ VEIN; THORIUM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALPS; FRANCE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 77954840235     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.181.3.227     Document Type: Article

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