Missing ophiolitic rocks along the Mae Yuam Fault as the Gondwana-Tethys divide in north-west Thailand

Island Arc

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 119-127

  Hisada, Ken Ichiro ^a   Sugiyama, Masaaki ^b   Ueno, Katsumi ^c   Charusiri, Punya ^d   Arai, Shoji ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Petroleum Association of Japan   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Detrital chromian spinel; Mafic rock; Sibumasu; Suture zone; Ultramafic rock

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; OPHIOLITE; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TETHYS;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 2042546100     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2003.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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