Origin and tectonic evolution of the metamorphic sole beneath the Brooks Range ophiolite, Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 324, Issue , 1998, Pages 293-312

  Harris, R A ^a,b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEFORMATION; GARNETS; LIME; MICA; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; TEXTURES;

COMPOSITIONAL SIMILARITIES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; KINEMATIC INDICATORS; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; STRESS AND STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; KINEMATICS; METAMORPHIC FACIES; OPHIOLITE; PETROLOGY; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870821007     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2324-8.293     Document Type: Article

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