Thermochronological record of thrusting and strike-slip faulting along the Giudicarie fault system (Alps, Northern Italy)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 579, Issue , 2012, Pages 118-130

  Pomella, Hannah ^a   Stipp, Michael ^b   Fügenschuh, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fission track analyses; Giudicarie fault system; Periadriatic fault system; Periadriatic intrusions; Permian intrusions; Southalpine indenter

Indexed keywords

FAULT SYSTEM; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; INDENTERS; PERIADRIATIC INTRUSIONS; PERMIAN;

BUILDINGS; FISSION REACTIONS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ANNEALING; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GRANODIORITE; PERMIAN; PLUTON; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST; TONALITE;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 84870363116     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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