The Shanderman eclogites: A Late Carboniferous high-pressure event in the NW Talesh Mountains (NW Iran)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 312, Issue , 2009, Pages 57-78

  Zanchetta, Stefano ^a   Zanchi, Andrea ^a   Villa, Igor ^a,c   Poli, Sfefano ^b   Muttoni, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; METABASITE; OROGENY; P-T CONDITIONS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; CASPIAN BASIN; ELBURZ; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; TALYSH MOUNTAINS;

MICAS;

EID: 70349166125     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP312.4     Document Type: Article

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