Concurrent HP metamorphism on both margins of Iapetus: Ordovician ages for eclogites and garnet pyroxenites from the Seve Nappe Complex, Swedish Caledonides

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 117-128

  Brueckner, Hanners K ^a,b   Van Roermund, Herman L M ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; ECLOGITE; GARNET; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHIC FACIES; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PYROXENITE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; JAMTLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33846248702     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492005-139     Document Type: Article

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