Variscan exhumation of a subducted Paleozoic continental margin: The basal units of the Ordenes Complex, Galicia, NW Spain

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 106-121

  Martínez Catalán, José R ^a   Arenas, Ricardo ^b   Díaz García, Florentino ^c   Rubio Pascual, Francisco J ^d   Abati, Jacobo ^b   Marquínez, Jorge ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHISM; P/T CONDITIONS; VARISCAN;

SPAIN, GALICIA, ORDENES COMPLEX;

EID: 0029768493     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC02617     Document Type: Article

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