Clinopyroxene-rutile phyllonites from the East tenda shear zone (alpine corsica, France): Pressure-temperature-time constraints to the alpine reworking of variscan corsica

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 723-732

  Maggi, Matteo ^a   Rossetti, Federico ^a   Corfu, Fernando ^b   Theye, Thomas ^c   Andersen, Torgeir B ^b   Faccenna, Claudio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D ARRAYS; ALPINE GEOLOGY; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; CHEMICAL SYSTEMS; CORSICA; FORWARD MODELLING; MINIMUM PRESSURE; REGIONAL STRUCTURE; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SHEAR ZONE; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; VARISCAN;

COATINGS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD; MICA; SODIUM;

OXIDE MINERALS;

AMPHIBOLE; CLINOPYROXENE; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; IONIZATION; LITHOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYLLONITE; PLATE TECTONICS; PRESSURE; RUTILE; SHEAR ZONE; TEMPERATURE; TITANITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84868577472     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2011-120     Document Type: Article

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