Exhumation of eclogite-bearing rocks by thrusting and upper crustal extension in the Western Gneiss Region of the Scandinavian Caledonides

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 218, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 307-320

  Gee, David G ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ECLOGITE; GNEISS; GRANITE; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; THRUST FAULT;

SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0042905901     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/218/2000/307     Document Type: Article

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