Sequential development of the metamorphic aureole beneath the Ronda peridotites and its bearing on the tectonic evolution of the Betic Cordillera

Tectonophysics

Volumn 279, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 227-252

  Tubía, José M ^a   Cuevas, Julia ^a   Gil Ibarguchi, José I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eclogite; Metamorphic sole; Ronda peridotites; Syn collisional exhumation

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; ECLOGITE FACIES; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHIC SOLE; PERIDOTITE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SPAIN, BETIC CORDILLERA;

EID: 0031425094     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00124-8     Document Type: Article

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