Submarine reworking of exhumed subcontinental mantle rocks: Field evidence from the Lherz peridotites, French Pyrenees

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-21

  Lagabrielle, Yves ^a   Bodinier, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; BRECCIA; DEFORMATION; DOLOMITE; EXHUMATION; LHERZOLITE; LIMESTONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC ROTATION;

ARIEGE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LHERZ MASSIF; MIDI-PYRENEES; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38649096620     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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