Exhumation of a migmatitic unit through self-enhanced magmatic weakening enabled by tectonic contact metamorphism (gruf complex, central european alps)

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  • who: M. Mintrone from the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland have published the Article: Exhumation of a migmatitic unit through self-enhanced magmatic weakening enabled by tectonic contact metamorphism (Gruf complex, Central European Alps), in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors investigate the contact zone between the Gruf complex, a migmatitic block of the European Central Alps and the adjacent, originally greenschist-facies units, i.e., the Chiavenna ophiolite and gneissic Tambo nappe (Fig 1a, b). The authors show that this contact zone accommodated ~ 8.5 km of near-vertical relative uplift of . . .

     

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