Mineral ages and p-t conditions of late paleozoic high-pressure eclogite and provenance of mélange sediments from atbashi in the south tianshan orogen of kyrgyzstan

American Journal of Science

Volumn 310, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 916-950

  Hegner, E ^a   Klemd, R ^b   Kroner A ^c,d   Corsini, M ^e   Alexeiev, D V ^f   Iaccheri, L M ^a   Zack, T ^c   Dulski, P ^g   Xia, X ^h   Windley, B F ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^f GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; DECOMPRESSION; ECLOGITE; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GRANITOID; HIGH PRESSURE; MELANGE; OROGENIC BELT; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PALEOZOIC; PHENGITE; PROVENANCE; SUTURE ZONE;

KYRGYZSTAN;

EID: 79952809779     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/09.2010.07     Document Type: Article

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