Diachronous post-orogenic magmatism within a developing orocline in Iberia, European Variscides

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Gutiérrez Alonso, Gabriel ^a   Fernández Suárez, Javier ^b   Jeffries, Teresa E ^c   Johnston, Stephen T ^d   Pastor Galán, Daniel ^a   Murphy, J Brendan ^e   Franco, M Piedad ^a   Gonzalo, J Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD; MELTING; SILICATE MINERALS;

CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; GRANITOIDS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE MELTING; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISMS; OROCLINE; OROGENIC BELTS; OUTER ARC; PERMIAN; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS; U-PB AGES; VARISCAN BELT; WESTERN EUROPE;

TECTONICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 80054046297     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002845     Document Type: Article

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