Constraints on the evolution of the Mesohellenic Ophiolite from subophiolitic metamorphic rocks

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 480, Issue , 2011, Pages 75-94

  Myhill, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; DISCRETE PHASIS; HOMOLOGOUS TEMPERATURE; LOWER TEMPERATURES; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; NORTH-WESTERN GREECE; PEAK TEMPERATURES;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; EXHUMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; HORNBLENDE; METABASITE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METASEDIMENT; OPHIOLITE; P-T CONDITIONS; SUBDUCTION;

GREECE;

EID: 84856556674     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2480(03)     Document Type: Article

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