U-Pb zircon dating of the Gruf Complex: Disclosing the late Variscan granulitic lower crust of Europe stranded in the Central Alps

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 353-378

  Galli, A ^a   Le Bayon, B ^a,b   Schmidt, M W ^a   Burg, J P ^a   Reusser, E ^a   Sergeev, S A ^c   Larionov, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Central Alps; Gruf Complex; Permian granulites and charnockites

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CHARNOCKITE; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; GRANULITE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LOWER CRUST; MELTING; MIGMATIZATION; RIFTING; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 84856212141     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-011-0676-6     Document Type: Article

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