Inferring protoliths of high-grade metamorphic gneisses of the Erzgebirge using zirconology, geochemistry and comparison with lower-grade rocks from Lusatia (Saxothuringia, Germany)

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-396

  Tichomirowa, Marion ^a   Sergeev, Sergey ^b   Berger, Hans Jürgen ^c   Leonhardt, Dietmar ^c  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

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

^c Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt Landwirtschaft und Geologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Erzgebirge; Gneisses; High pressure metamorphism; Lusatia; Protolith; Zircon ages

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CAMBRIAN; DEFORMATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; GRAYWACKE; INFILTRATION; METAIGNEOUS ROCK; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SOURCE ROCK; TECTONIC SETTING; ZIRCON;

ERZGEBIRGE MOUNTAINS; GERMANY; LUSATIA;

EID: 84865648922     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-012-0742-8     Document Type: Article

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