Age of the metamorphic sole of the Papuan Ultramafic Belt ophiolite, Papua New Guinea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 392, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 85-101

  Lus, Wilfred Y ^a,b   McDougall, Ian ^a   Davies, Hugh L ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Metamorphic sole; Obduction; Ophiolite; Papua

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OPHIOLITE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

MELANESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; WORLD;

EID: 11344278484     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.04.009     Document Type: Article

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