The relative timing of serpentinisation and mantle exhumation at the ocean-continent transition, Iberia: Constraints from oxygen isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 327-338

  Skelton, Alasdair D L ^a   Valley, John W ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental crust; Exhumation; Fluid dynamics; Isotopes; Oceanic crust; Oxygen; Serpentinite

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; EXHUMATION; MANTLE; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OCEANIC CRUST; SERPENTINIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034041560     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00087-X     Document Type: Article

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