Timing of Variscan HP-HT metamorphism in the Moldanubian Zone of the Bohemian Massif: U-Pb SHRIMP dating on multiply zoned zircons from a granulite from the Dunkelsteiner Wald Massif, Lower Austria

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 102, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 63-75

  Friedl, Gertrude ^a   Cooke, Rob A ^b   Finger, Friedrich ^a   McNaughton, Neal J ^c   Fletcher, Ian R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b Soil Mechanics   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; GRANULITE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METAMORPHISM; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AUSTRIA; BOHEMIAN MASSIF; LOWER AUSTRIA;

EID: 80355144517     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-011-0162-x     Document Type: Article

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