The Kostomuksha greenstone belt, NW Baltic Shield: Remnant of a late Archaean oceanic plateau?

Terra Nova

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-90

  Puchtel, I S ^a   Hofmann, A W ^a   Jochum, K P ^a   Mezger, K ^a   Shchipansky, A A ^b   Samsonov, A V ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; GREENSTONE BELT; OBDUCTION; OCEANIC PLATEAU; SHEAR ZONE; TERRANE;

EUROPE, BALTIC SHIELD, KOSTOMUKSHA BELT;

EID: 0031435078     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1997.tb00009.x     Document Type: Article

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