Evidence for oceanic subduction at the NE Gondwana margin during Permo-Triassic times

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-202

  Liu, Yan ^a   Liu, Hongfei ^b   Theye, Thomas ^c   Massonne, Hans Joachim ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Tibetan Geological Survey   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; BLUESCHIST; CENOZOIC; GLAUCOPHANE; GONDWANA; OCEANIC CRUST; P-T-T PATH; PHENGITE; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE; TRIASSIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LHASA; XIZANG;

EID: 66449136068     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00874.x     Document Type: Article

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