Tracking the Adriatic-slab travel beneath the Tethyan margin of Corsica-Sardinia by low-temperature thermochronometry

Gondwana Research

Volumn 31, Issue , 2016, Pages 135-149

  Malusà, Marco G ^a   Danišík, Martin ^b   Kuhlemann, Joachim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c Swiss Nuclear Safety Inspectorate   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine subduction; Apenninic subduction; Northern Tethyan margin; Slab translation; Tyrrhenian sea; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; DATA SET; FISSION TRACK DATING; MESOZOIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON;

ADRIATIC COAST [ITALY]; CORSE; FRANCE; ITALY; SARDINIA;

EID: 84958108108     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.12.011     Document Type: Article

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