Blueschist preservation in a retrograded, high-pressure, low-temperature metamorphic terrane, Tinos, Greece: Implications for fluid flow paths in subduction zones

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Breeding, Christopher M ^a   Ague, Jay J ^a   Bröcker, Michael ^b   Bolton, Edward W ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institut fü r Mineralogie 48149   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact parallel fluid flow; Cyclades; Greece; Marble; Retrograde; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347181861     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GC000380     Document Type: Article

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