Pressure-temperature-deformation-time of the ductile Alpine shearing in Corsica: From orogenic construction to collapse

Lithos

Volumn 218-219, Issue , 2015, Pages 99-116

  Rossetti, Federico ^a   Glodny, Johannes ^b   Theye, Thomas ^c   Maggi, Matteo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine orogen; Corsica; Mediterranean region; Rb Sr tectonochronology; Shear zones; Subduction zone metamorphism

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; MIOCENE; PRESSURE; RECONSTRUCTION; RECRYSTALLIZATION; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE;

APENNINES; CORSE; FRANCE; ITALY;

SCHISTES;

EID: 84922371044     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.01.011     Document Type: Article

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