Detrital fingerprints of fossil continental-subduction zones (Axial Belt Provenance, European Alps)

Journal of Geology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 341-362

  Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Resentini, Alberto ^a   Vezzoli, Giovanni ^a   Andò, Sergio ^a   Malusà, Marco G ^a   Padoan, Marta ^a   Paparella, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENY; PARAGENESIS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALPS; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 77955689691     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652720     Document Type: Article

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