Caledonian eclogite-facies metamorphism of early Proterozoic protoliths from the North-East Greenland Eclogite Province

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-120

  Brueckner, Hannes K ^a,d   Gilotti, Jane A ^b   Nutman, Allen P ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN; ECLOGITE FACIES; METAMORPHISM;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0031752408     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050353     Document Type: Article

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