Ultramafic Cumulates of Oceanic Affinity in an Intracontinental Subduction Zone: Ultrahigh-Pressure Garnet Peridotites from Pohorje (Eastern Alps, Slovenia)

Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 399-439

  De Hoog, Jan C M ^a   Janák, Marian ^b   Vrabec, Mirijam ^c   Hattori, Keiko H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continental subduction; Eastern Alps; Garnet peridotite; Olivine gabbro; Pohorje; Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism; Ultramafic cumulate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857195418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385144-4.00012-6     Document Type: Chapter

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