Rift-Drift, Seafloor Spreading, and Subduction Tectonics of Albanian Ophiolites

International Geology Review

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-176

  Dilek, Yildirim ^a   Shallo, Minella ^b   Furnes, Harald ^c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOZOIC; OPHIOLITE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ALBANIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

SOLEIDAE; TITHONIA;

EID: 14644415471     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.47.2.147     Document Type: Article

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