Pressure-temperature-deformation-time (P-T-d-t) exhumation history of the Voltri Massif HP complex, Ligurian Alps, Italy

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Vignaroli, Gianluca ^a   Rossetti, Federico ^a   Rubatto, Daniela ^b   Theye, Thomas ^c   Lisker, Frank ^d   Phillips, David ^e  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

APATITE FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY; BACK-ARC BASIN; CRUSTAL LEVELS; CRUSTAL THINNING; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EXHUMATION OF HP ROCKS; EXHUMATION RATES; GREENSCHIST; INITIAL STAGES; LATE OLIGOCENE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PHENGITE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; REGIONAL SCALE; TECTONIC CONTROL; TEMPERATURE INTERVALS; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TWO STAGE; U-PB SHRIMP;

GEODYNAMICS;

COOLING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GEODYNAMICS; GREENSCHIST FACIES; METAMORPHISM; PETROLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 78650302464     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002621     Document Type: Article

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