Large P-T gap between Ballantrae blueschist/garnet pyroxenite and surrounding ophiolite, southern Scotland, UK: Diapiric exhumation of a Caledonian serpentinite mélange

Lithos

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 337-354

  Kawai, T ^a   Windley, B F ^b   Shibuya, T ^a   Omori, S ^a   Sawaki, Y ^a   Maruyama, S ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ballantrae; Blueschist; Caledonian orogen; Ophiolite

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; BLUESCHIST; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXHUMATION; GARNET; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MELANGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OPHIOLITE; P-T CONDITIONS; PARAGENESIS; PYROXENITE; SERPENTINITE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 49349089187     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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