Selective melting processes as inferred from experimentally generated pseudotachylytes

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 533-545

  Lin, Aiming ^a,b   Shimamoto, Toshihiko ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABBRO; GRANITE; MELTING; PSEUDOTACHYLYTE;

EID: 0032434058     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-9547(98)00040-3     Document Type: Article

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