Slab breakoff: A model for Caledonian, Late Granite syn-collisional magmatism in the orthotectonic (metamorphic) zone of Scotland and Donegal, Ireland

Lithos

Volumn 62, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 65-85

  Atherton, M P ^a   Ghani, A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Caledonian Late Granites; Donegal; Petrogenesis; Slab breakoff; Syn collisional magmatism

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; COLLISION ZONE; GRANITE; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; SLAB; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036300107     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-4937(02)00111-1     Document Type: Article

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