Major and trace-element composition and pressure-temperature evolution of rock-buffered fluids in low-grade accretionary-wedge metasediments, Central Alps

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 165, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 981-1008

  Miron, George D ^a   Wagner, Thomas ^a,b   Wälle, Markus ^a   Heinrich, Christoph A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accretionary wedge; Fluid inclusions; Fluid rock equilibrium; Graphitic metasediments; LA ICPMS; Low grade metamorphism; Veins

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FLUID INCLUSION; LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METASEDIMENT; P-T CONDITIONS; TRACE ELEMENT; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84876089430     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-012-0844-3     Document Type: Article

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