Exhuming the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt: The importance of tectonic discontinuities

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-95

  Wallis, S ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Metamorphic pressure; Microstructure; Sanbagawa metamorphism; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; METAMORPHISM; P/T CONDITIONS; TECTONICS;

JAPAN, SANBAGAWA BELT;

EID: 0031918804     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1998.00072.x     Document Type: Article

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