High-pressure metamorphism in Taiwan: From oceanic subduction to arc-continent collision?

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 118-125

  Beyssac, O ^a   Negro, F ^b   Simoes, M ^c   Chan, Y C ^d   Chen, Y G ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BELT; CENOZOIC; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PASSIVE MARGIN; PETROLOGY; SUBDUCTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 41149172378     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00796.x     Document Type: Article

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