Permo-Triassic thermal events in the lower Variscan continental crust section of the Northern Calabrian Arc, Southern Italy: Insights from petrological data and in situ U-Pb zircon geochronology on gabbros

Lithos

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 291-307

  Liberi, Francesca ^a   Piluso, Eugenio ^a   Langone, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabrian Arc; In situ U Pb geochronology; Triassic; Underplating magmatism

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMPLACEMENT; GABBRO; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PETROLOGY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THOLEIITE; TRIASSIC; UNDERPLATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CALABRIAN ARC;

EID: 79955838228     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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