Low-grade metamorphic rocks in the dabie-sulu orogenic belt: A passive-margin accretionary wedge deformed during continent subduction

International Geology Review

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 851-871

  Zheng, Yong Fei ^a   Zhou, Jian Bo ^a   Wu, Yuan Bao ^a   Xie, Zhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; GREENSCHIST; OROGENIC BELT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUTURE ZONE; TRIASSIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; WORLD; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 24344491507     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.47.8.851     Document Type: Article

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