Discovery of high-pressure granulite-facies metamorphism in northern Vietnam: Constraints on the Permo-Triassic Indochinese continental collision tectonics

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 127-138

  Nakano, Nobuhiko ^a   Osanai, Yasuhito ^a   Minh, Nguyen Thi ^a   Miyamoto, Tomoharu ^a   Hayasaka, Yasutaka ^b   Owada, Masaaki ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continental collision; High pressure granulite; Indochina; Song Ma Suture zone; Triassic; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRATON; DECOMPRESSION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GARNET; GRANULITE FACIES; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HORNBLENDE; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC BELT; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PLAGIOCLASE; QUARTZ; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUTURE ZONE; SYMPLECTITE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 39149118916     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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