Dating deformation in the Gran Paradiso Massif (NW Italian Alps): Implications for the exhumation of high-pressure rocks in a collisional belt

Lithos

Volumn 144-145, Issue , 2012, Pages 130-144

  Rosenbaum, Gideon ^a   Menegon, Luca ^b   Glodny, Johannes ^c   Vasconcelos, Paulo ^a   Ring, Uwe ^d   Massironi, Matteo ^e   Thiede, David ^a   Nasipuri, Pritam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ar Ar; Dating deformation; Exhumation; Gran Paradiso Massif; Rb Sr; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

ARGON ISOTOPE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; NAPPE; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC WEDGE;

ALPS; GRAIAN ALPS; GRAN PARADISO; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 84860654178     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.04.016     Document Type: Article

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