Tracing two orogenic cycles in one eclogite sample by Lu-Hf garnet chronometry

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 178-183

  Herwartz, Daniel ^a   Nagel, Thorsten J ^a   Münker, Carsten ^b   Scherer, Erik E ^c   Froitzheim, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BASALT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SET; ECLOGITE; GARNET; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; HIGH PRESSURE; MANTLE; METAMORPHISM; NAPPE; OROGENY; SUBDUCTION;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS;

ADULA;

EID: 79952151979     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1060     Document Type: Article

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