Did the Western Alps develop through an Oman-type stage? The geotectonic setting of high-pressure metamorphism in two contrasting Tethyan transects

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-80

  Michard, André ^a   Goffé, Bruno ^a   Chopin, Christian ^a   Henry, Caroline ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Collision; HP LT metamorphism; Obduction; Oman; Ophiolites; Subduction; Tectonics; Tethyan belts; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; OBDUCTION; OPHIOLITE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TETHYAN BELT;

EUROPE, ALPS; OMAN;

EID: 0029751815     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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