Discovery of a dismembered metamorphic sole in the Saga ophiolitic mélange, South Tibet: Assessing an Early Cretaceous disruption of the Neo-Tethyan supra-subduction zone and consequences on basin closing

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 398-414

  Guilmette, Carl ^a   Hébert, Réjean ^a   Dostal, Jaroslav ^b   Indares, Aphrodite ^c   Ullrich, Thomas ^d   Bédard, Émilie ^a   Wang, Chengshan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e China University of Geosciences   (China)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Ophiolitic m lange; South Tibet; Tectonics; Thermobarometry; Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; CRETACEOUS; MELANGE; METASOMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OPHIOLITE; PROTOLITH; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CHINA; INDUS-YARLUNG SUTURE ZONE; XIZANG;

EID: 84863868471     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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