Middle Carboniferous crustal melting in the Variscan Belt: New insights from U-Th-Pbtot. monazite and U-Pb zircon ages of the Montagne Noire Axial Zone (southern French Massif Central)

Gondwana Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 653-673

  Faure, Michel ^a   Cocherie, Alain ^b   Mézème, Eugène Bé ^a,b   Charles, Nicolas ^a   Rossi, Philippe ^b  

^a STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

French Massif Central; Migmatites; U Pb geochronology; U Th Pb chemical dating; Variscan Belt

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EMPLACEMENT; GRANITOID; MIGMATIZATION; MONAZITE; PARTIAL MELTING; SOURCE ROCK; URANIUM SERIES DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

FRANCE; MONTAGNE NOIRE;

EID: 77956494833     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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