Exhumation of eclogites: Insights from depth-time path analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 280, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 125-140

  Duchêne, Stéphanie ^a   Lardeaux, Jean Marc ^b   Albarède, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b Lab de Petrologie et Geol Struct   (France)

Author keywords

Eclogite; Exhumation; Geochronology; Mountain belts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001528509     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00143-1     Document Type: Article

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