Evidence for high exhumation rate in Central European Variscides: U-Pb ages of granulite metamorphism of clasts deposited in Upper Visean conglomerates.

• Authors: KOTKOVÁ Jana; PARRISH Randall
• Year of publication: 2000
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Geolines
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Geology and mineralogy
• Keywords: granulites; conglomerates; Visé; U-Pb dating; exhumation
• Description: Late Variscan U-Pb zircon, monazite and rutile ages for granulite, durbachite and granite from clasts, Visean conglomerates, are interpreted as indicative of high exhumation rate of rocks at the E margin of the Bohemian Massif.

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