The Northern Giudicarie and the Meran-Mauls fault (Alps, Northern Italy) in the light of new paleomagnetic and geochronological data from boudinaged Eo-/Oligocene tonalites

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1827-1850

  Pomella, Hannah ^a   Klötzli, Urs ^b   Scholger, Robert ^c   Stipp, Michael ^d   Fügenschuh, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility; Fission track dating; Giudicarie fault system; Periadriatic intrusions; U Pb laser ablation ICP MS

Indexed keywords

BOUDINAGE; CURIE POINT; DEFORMATION; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FAULTING; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOOTWALL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FABRIC; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TONALITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALPS; GIUDICARIE FAULT ZONE; ITALY;

BARTONIA;

EID: 79959688422     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-010-0612-4     Document Type: Article

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