Time and duration of Variscan high-temperature metamorphic processes in the south European Variscides: Constraints from U-Pb chronology and trace element chemistry of zircon

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 103, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 101-122

  Fornelli, Annamaria ^a   Langone, Antonio ^b   Micheletti, Francesca ^a   Piccarreta, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

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EID: 80955135016     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-011-0156-8     Document Type: Article

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