Cenozoic granitoids in the Dinarides of southern Serbia: Age of intrusion, isotope geochemistry, exhumation history and significance for the geodynamic evolution of the Balkan Peninsula

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1181-1206

  Schefer, Senecio ^a   Cvetković, Vladica ^b   Fügenschuh, Bernhard ^c   Kounov, Alexandre ^a   Ovtcharova, Maria ^d   Schaltegger, Urs ^d   Schmid, Stefan M ^a,e  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b Saobra ajni Fakultet U Beogradu   (Serbia)

^c Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie   (Austria)

^d Section des sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement   (Switzerland)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinarides; Fission track analysis; Granitoids; Hf isotopes; Periadriatic intrusions; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CENOZOIC; EXHUMATION; GEODYNAMICS; GRANITOID; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALPS; BALKANS; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS;

EID: 79957645964     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-010-0599-x     Document Type: Article

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