The geodynamics of collision of a microplate (Chilenia) in Devonian times deduced by the pressure-temperature-time evolution within part of a collisional belt (Guarguaraz Complex, W-Argentina)

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-327

  Willner, Arne P ^a,b   Gerdes, Axel ^c   Massonne, Hans Joachim ^b   Schmidt, Alexander ^d   Sudo, Masafumi ^d   Thomson, Stuart N ^e   Vujovich, Graciela ^f  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Albite amphibolite facies; Collision zone; Fission track (zircon); Garnet; Geothermobarometry; K Ar system; Lu Hf system; Potassic white mica

Indexed keywords

ALBITE; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ARGON-ARGON DATING; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DECOMPRESSION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GARNET; GEODYNAMICS; GEOTHERMOMETRY; METAPELITE; MICROPLATE; POTASSIC ROCK;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79959223147     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0598-8     Document Type: Article

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