Prograde amphibolite facies to ultrahigh-pressure transition along Nordfjord, western Norway: Implications for exhumation tectonics

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Young, David J ^a   Hacker, Bradley R ^a   Andersen, Torgeir B ^b   Corfu, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; MODELING; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORDFJORD; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SOGN OG FJORDANE;

EID: 34249788143     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001781     Document Type: Article

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