Transition from subduction- to exhumation-related fabrics in glaucophane-bearing eclogites, Oman: Evidence from relative fabric chronology and 40Ar/39Ar ages

Tectonophysics

Volumn 389, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 35-64

  Gray, David R ^a   Miller, John McL ^a   Foster, David A ^b   Gregory, Robert T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ar Ar thermochronology; Eclogite; Exhumation; High P metamorphism; Megaboudins; Oman; Subduction

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; ECLOGITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS; SAIH HATAT;

EID: 4744376052     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.06.016     Document Type: Article

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