Contrasting P-T-t histories for blueschists from the western baja terrane and the aegean: Effects of synsubduction exhumation and backarc extension

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 96, Issue , 1996, Pages 135-141

  Baldwin, Suzanne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0003769356     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM096p0135     Document Type: Chapter

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