Geological arguments for a continental subduction model to explain exhumation of high-pressure metamorphism in Oman;Arguments géologiques en faveur d'un modèle de subduction continentale pour l'exhumation du métamorphisme haute-pression d'Oman

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 322, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 869-876

  Mattauer, Maurice ^a   Ritz, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Ductile deformation; Exhumation; Folding; Metamorphism; Obduction; Oman; Subduction

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHISM; OBDUCTION;

OMAN;

EID: 0029750072     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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