The Lesvos mafic-ultramafic complex, Greece: Ophiolite or incipient rift?

Lithos

Volumn 108, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 243-261

  Koglin, Nikola ^a,c,d   Kostopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Reischmann, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b School of Science ^*  (Greece)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Late Permian; Lesvos; Neotethys; Rift; Within plate; Zircon dating

Indexed keywords

DIKE; GABBRO; MELANGE; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PERIDOTITE; PERMIAN; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SHRIMP DATING; TETHYS; TRACE ELEMENT; ZIRCON;

AEGEAN SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HELLENIDES; LESBOS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 59849114633     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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