Continental subduction and a mechanism for exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks: New modelling and field data from Oman

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 173-182

  Chemenda, Alexander I ^a,c   Mattauer, Maurice ^a   Bokun, Alexander N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b Inst Geol Geochem of Fossil Fuels   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Metamorphic rocks; Models; Oman Mountains; Orogeny; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; OROGENESIS; SUBDUCTION;

OMAN, OMAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0030430440     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00123-9     Document Type: Article

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