Cretaceous mid-crustal metamorphism and exhumation of the Koolen gneiss dome, Chukotka Peninsula, northeastern Russia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 147-165

  Akinin, Vyacheslav V ^a   Calvert, Andrew T ^b,c  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DOME; EXHUMATION; FAULTING; GNEISS; METAMORPHISM;

CHUKCHI; CHUKCHI PENINSULA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84870894741     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.147     Document Type: Review

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