Recent progress in Scandian ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in the northernmost domain of the Western Gneiss Complex, SW Norway: Continental subduction down to 180-200 km depth

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 739-751

  van Roermund, Herman ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; DISEQUILIBRIUM; ECLOGITE; GARNET; JADEITE; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERIDOTITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FJORTOFT; MORE OG ROMSDAL; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

EID: 69949175675     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492008-020     Document Type: Article

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