High-pressure intermediate-temperature metamorphism in the southern barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, South Africa: A consequence of subduction-driven overthickening and collapse of mid-archean continental crust

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 164, Issue , 2006, Pages 239-254

  Diener, Johann ^a,b   Stevens, Gary ^a   Kisters, Alex ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 33750934630     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/164GM15     Document Type: Chapter

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