Inherited Ocean-Continent Transition zones in deeply subducted terranes: Insights from Alpine Corsica

Lithos

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 273-290

  Vitale Brovarone, Alberto ^a,b   Beltrando, Marco ^a   Malavieille, Jacques ^b   Giuntoli, Francesco ^a   Tondella, Ermete ^a   Groppo, Chiara ^a   Beyssac, Olivier ^c   Compagnoni, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine Corsica; Lawsonite eclogite; Ocean Continent Transition; Structural inheritance; Tethyan rifting

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION; ECLOGITE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; LAWSONITE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MANTLE; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENT; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OROGENY; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TERRANE;

CORSE; FRANCE;

SCHISTES;

EID: 79955800528     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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