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On the evolution of orogens: Pressure cycles and deformation mode switches

Date

Authors

Beltrando, Marco

Hermann, Joerg

Lister, Gordon

Compagnoni, Roberto

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

Evidence of two burial-exhumation cycles that took place during a single orogeny has been found in rocks belonging to the Piemonte unit of the Western Alps. An early high pressure event, which resulted from tectonic burial down to pressures of 1.5 GPa, w

Keywords

Keywords: Burial-exhumation cycles; Orogen-scale alternance; Geochronology; Petrology; Pressure; Temperature; Tectonics; amphibole; burial (geology); deformation; episodic event; exhumation; geochronology; orogeny; P-T conditions; pressure effect; tectonic evolutio Alps; amphibole; extensional tectonics; orogenesis; pressure-temperature path

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/38115

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.epsl.2007.01.022

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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