Early Precambrian gneiss terranes and Pan-African island arcs in Yemen: Crustal accretion of the eastern Arabian Shield

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-134

  Windley, Brian F ^a   Whitehouse, Martin J ^b   Ba Bttat, Mahfood A O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Arab Petroleum Services Co Ltd   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BINARY ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS;

CRUSTAL GROWTH; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; ISOTOPIC DATA; MOZAMBIQUE BELTS; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SAUDI ARABIA; TECTONIC FRAMEWORK; ND MODELING;

SAMARIUM ALLOYS;

ACCRETION; GNEISS; GONDWANA; ISLAND ARC; OBDUCTION; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PRECAMBRIAN; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; TERRANE; CRUSTAL GROWTH;

ARABIAN SHIELD; ASIR; SAUDI ARABIA; YEMEN;

EID: 0029729861     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0131:EPGTAP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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