Contrasting styles of (U)HP rock exhumation along the Cenozoic Adria-Europe plate boundary (Western Alps, Calabria, Corsica)

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1786-1824

  Malusà, Marco G ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^b   Baldwin, Suzanne L ^c   Fitzgerald, Paul G ^c   Rossetti, Federico ^b   Balestrieri, Maria Laura ^d   Danišík, Martin ^e   Ellero, Alessandro ^f   Ottria, Giuseppe ^f   Piromallo, Claudia ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS;

(U)HP EXHUMATION; APENNINES; CALABRIA; CORSICA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; WESTERN ALPS;

ROCKS;

CENOZOIC; EXHUMATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TERRANE;

ALPS; APENNINES; CALABRIA; CORSE; FRANCE; ITALY; SARDINIA; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 84930885761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005767     Document Type: Article

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