Time constraints on the building of the Serre batholith: Consequences for the thermal evolution of the hercynian continental crust exposed in Calabria (Southern Italy)

Journal of Geology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 183-199

  Langone, Antonio ^a   Caggianelli, Alfredo ^b   Festa, Vincenzo ^b   Prosser, Giacomo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; CONTINENTAL CRUST; EMPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LOWER CRUST; MAGMA; MONAZITE; PLUTON; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TONALITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALABRIA; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; SALERNO; SERRE;

EID: 84897450627     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: 15375269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675227     Document Type: Article

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