Mantle dynamics during Permo-Mesozoic extension of the Europe-Adria lithosphere: Insights from the Ligurian ophiolites

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 73, Issue SPEC. ISSUE 1, 2004, Pages 215-230

  Rampone, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mantle exhumation; Mantle peridotites; Ophiolites; Sm Nd isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547892628     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: 22391002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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