Timing and exhumation of eclogite facies shear zones, Musgrave Block, central Australia

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 735-751

  Camacho, A ^a   Compston, W ^a   Mcculloch, M ^a   Mcdoucall, I ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

^{40< sup>Ar 39< sup>Ar; Eclogite facies; Exhumation; Musgrave Block; Pan African; SHRIMP; Sm Nd}

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; SHEAR ZONE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031403124     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1997.00053.x     Document Type: Article

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