On-going orogeny in the outer-arc of the Timor-Tanimbar region, eastern Indonesia

Gondwana Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 218-233

  Kaneko, Yoshiyuki ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a   Kadarusman, Ade ^a   Ota, Tsutomu ^a   Ishikawa, Masahiro ^b   Tsujimori, Tatsuki ^c   Ishikawa, Akira ^a   Okamoto, Kazuaki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

High P T metamorphic belt; Mountain building; Timor Tanimbar region; Wedge extrusion

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; EXTRUSION; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OROGENY; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROLOGY; SLAB;

ARAFURA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; TANIMBAR TROUGH;

EID: 33845306780     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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