Cooling history of granulite samples from the ocean-continent transition of the Galicia margin: implications for rifting

Terra Nova

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 96-100

  Fuegenschuh, Bernhard ^a   Froitzheim, Nikolaus ^a   Boillot, Gilbert ^b  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COOLING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANULITE; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; RIFTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032448477     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1998.00155.x     Document Type: Article

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