Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east central China: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic tectonic unroofing

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B6, 2000, Pages 13339-13364

  Hacker, Bradley R ^a   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^b,c   Webb, Laura ^d,e   McWilliams, Michael O ^d   Ireland, Trevor ^d   Calvert, Andrew ^a   Dong, Shuwen ^f   Wenk, Hans Rudolf ^g   Chateigner, Daniel ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

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EID: 0001042854     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900039     Document Type: Article

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