Mechanics and mechanisms of magmatic underplating: inferences from mafic veins in deep crustal mylonite

Handy, M; Streit, J

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Mechanics and mechanisms of magmatic underplating: inferences from mafic veins in deep crustal mylonite

Date

1999

Authors

Handy, M

Streit, J

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

Dioritic to gabbro-dioritic veins with extreme length to width ratios (>1000:1) are localized along an amphibolite facies shear zone (the CMB Line) between exposed segments of originally middle and lower continental crust (Strona-Ceneri and Ivrea-Verbano