Timescales and mechanisms of batholith construction: Constraints from zircon oxygen isotopes and geochronology of the late Variscan Serre Batholith (Calabria, southern Italy)

Lithos

Volumn 277, Issue , 2017, Pages 302-314

  Fiannacca, Patrizia ^a   Williams, Ian S ^b   Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crustal recycling; Incremental pluton overaccretion; Oxygen isotopes; Serre Massif; U Th Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DIORITE; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLUTON; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; SALERNO; SERRE;

EID: 85027444782     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: 18726143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.06.011     Document Type: Article

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