Timing of high-pressure metamorphic events in the Bulgarian Rhodopes from Lu-Hf garnet geochronology

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 897-921

  Kirchenbaur, M ^a,b   Pleuger, J ^c   Jahn Awe, S ^a   Nagel, T J ^a   Froitzheim, N ^a   Fonseca, R O C ^a   Munker C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eclogite; Geochronology; HP metamorphism; Lu Hf; Rhodopes; Sm Nd

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; ALPINE OROGENY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GARNET; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METAMORPHISM; NAPPE; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACE ELEMENT;

GREECE; HELLENIDES; RHODOPE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84859727193     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-011-0705-5     Document Type: Article

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