Dike magmatism in the Sila Grande (Calabria, southern Italy): Evidence of Pennsylvanian-Early Permian exhumation

Geosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 549-566

  Festa, Vincenzo ^a   Langone, Antonio ^b,c   Caggianelli, Alfredo ^a   Rottura, Alessandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; GRANITOID; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MAGMATISM; PENNSYLVANIAN; PERMIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 78049514490     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00578.1     Document Type: Article

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