Vourinos complex (Greece) - An example of eastern Mediterranean ophiolite

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-18

  Savvidis, Serafim ^a   Hovorka, Dušan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Geodynamic evolution; Hellenides; Mesozoic ophiolites

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; CUMULATE; HARZBURGITE; JURASSIC; MINERALIZATION; OPHIOLITE; PGM;

GREECE;

EID: 0030816371     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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