The Wadi Onib Mafic-Ultramafic Complex: A Neoproterozoic Supra-Subduction Zone Ophiolite in the Northern Red Sea Hills of the Sudan

Developments in Precambrian Geology

Volumn 13, Issue C, 2004, Pages 163-206

  Hussein, I M ^a   Kroner A ^a   Reischmann, T ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 77956769357     PISSN: 01662635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2635(04)13005-3     Document Type: Review

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