Hydrothermal alteration and tectonic evolution of an intermediate- to fast-spreading back-arc oceanic crust: Late Ordovician Solund-Stavfjord ophiolite, western Norway

Island Arc

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 517-541

  Fonneland Jorgensen, Hege ^a   Furnes, Harald ^b   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^c   Dilek, Yildirim ^d  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrothermal alteration; Norwegian Caledonides; Ophiolite; Oxygen isotopes; Strontium isotopes; Tectonic activity; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BASALT; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OPHIOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33644826888     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2005.00481.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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