Alpe Arami: A peridotite massif from the mantle transition zone?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 279, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 1-21

  Green II, Harry W ^a   Dobrzhinetskaya, Larissa ^a   Riggs, Eric M ^a   Jin, Zhen Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alps; Garnet peridotite; Iron titanium oxides; Subduction

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; MANTLE; PERIDOTITE; SUBDUCTION; TRANSITION ZONE;

SWITZERLAND, ALPE ARAMI;

EID: 0031413958     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00127-3     Document Type: Article

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