Dating the exhumation of UHP rocks and associated crustal melting in the Norwegian Caledonides

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 758-770

  Schärer, Urs ^a   Labrousse, Loïc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUST; DATING METHOD; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; MELTING; P-T CONDITIONS; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

CALEDONIDES; NORWAY;

EID: 0037360685     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-002-0428-8     Document Type: Article

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