Dating low-temperature deformation by 40Ar/39Ar on white mica, insights from the Argentera-Mercantour Massif (SW Alps)

Lithos

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 521-536

  Sanchez, Guillaume ^a   Rolland, Yann ^a   Schneider, Julie ^a   Corsini, Michel ^a   Oliot, Emilien ^b   Goncalves, Philippe ^b   Verati, Chrystèle ^a   Lardeaux, Jean Marc ^a   Marquer, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar dating; Argentera Mercantour External Crystalline massif; Phengite chlorite geothermobarometry; Shear zones; South Western Alps

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CHLORITE; CLAST; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GEOBAROMETRY; GEOTHERMOMETRY; GNEISS; GRANITE; GREENSCHIST FACIES; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICA; MINERALOGY; MUSCOVITE; MYLONITE; MYLONITIZATION; PHENGITE; PROTOLITH; SHEAR ZONE; TEXTURE;

ARGENTERA MASSIF;

EID: 79958779674     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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