Testing the validity of organic and inorganic thermal indicators in different tectonic settings from continental subduction to collision: The case history of the Calabria-Lucania border (southern Apennines, Italy)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 985-999

  Corrado, S ^a   Invernizzi, C ^b   Aldega, L ^a   D'Errico, M ^c   di Leo, P ^d   Mazzoli, S ^c   Zattin, M ^e  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; APENNINES; B CELLS; CASE HISTORY; FLUID INCLUSION; ISOTHERMAL DECOMPRESSION; LATE MIOCENE; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; PALAEOTEMPERATURES; PEAK PRESSURE; ROBUST ESTIMATE; SYN-TECTONIC VEINS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL PARAMETERS; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE; WHITE MICA;

CLAY MINERALS; INCLUSIONS; MICA; MINERALOGY; PETROGRAPHY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

CLAY MINERAL; COLLISION ZONE; DIAGENESIS; EXHUMATION; FLUID INCLUSION; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; P-T CONDITIONS; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TEXTURE; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

BASILICATA; CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 77956950527     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-137     Document Type: Article

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