The origin of amphibolites from metamorphic soles beneath the ultramafic ophiolites in Evia and Lesvos (Greece) and their geotectonic implication

Lithos

Volumn 108, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 224-242

  Gartzos, E ^a   Dietrich, V J ^b   Migiros, G ^a   Serelis, K ^a   Lymperopoulou, Th ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greek ophiolites; Ophiolite emplacement; Ophiolites Evia island; Ophiolites Lesvos island; Petrography and geochemistry of amphibolite soles; Pindos and Vardar oceanic basins

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; EMPLACEMENT; FLYSCH; GABBRO; JURASSIC; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OBDUCTION; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PETROGRAPHY; PROTOLITH; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSFORM FAULT;

CENTRAL GREECE; EUBOEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HELLENIDES; LESBOS; NORTHERN AEGEAN; PONTIDES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TURKEY;

SOLEIDAE;

EID: 59849128789     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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