Evidence for superposed MORB, oceanic plateau and volcanic arc series in the Lesser Caucasus (Stepanavan, Armenia)

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 482-492

  Galoyan, Ghazar ^a,b   Rolland, Yann ^a   Sosson, Marc ^a   Corsini, Michel ^a   Melkonyan, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Armenia; Lesser Caucasus; Oceanic plateau; Ophiolites; SLOT; Tethys; Volcanic arc

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE ROCK; ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; OPHIOLITE; TETHYS;

CAUCASUS; EURASIA;

EID: 34547449348     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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