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Dating tectonic activity in the Lepontine Dome and Rhone-Simplon Fault regions through hydrothermal monazite-(Ce)
Christian A. Bergemann
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Natural History Museum of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
currently at: Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Edwin Gnos
Natural History Museum of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Alfons Berger
Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Emilie Janots
ISTerre, University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Martin J. Whitehouse
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
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Short summary
Metamorphic domes are areas in a mountain chain that were unburied and where deeper parts of the crust rose to the surface. The Lepontine Dome in the Swiss and Italian Alps is such a place, and it is additionally bordered on two sides by shear zones where crustal blocks moved past each other. To determine when these tectonic movements happened, we measured the ages of monazite crystals that form in fluid-filled pockets inside the rocks during these movements of exhumation and deformation.
Metamorphic domes are areas in a mountain chain that were unburied and where deeper parts of the...
