From Rodinia to Pangaea: Ophiolites from NW Iberia as witness for a long-lived continental margin

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 327, Issue , 2009, Pages 317-341

  Martínez, Sonia Sánchez ^a   Arenas, Ricardo ^a   Fernández Suárez, Javier ^a   Jeffries, Teresa E ^b  

^a Universidad Complutense de Madrid CSIC   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; IAPETUS OCEAN; ISLAND ARC; LITHOLOGY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE TECTONICS; RODINIA; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUTURE ZONE; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 75249098533     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP327.14     Document Type: Article

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