Petrology, tectonics, and hydrothermal alteration of a fossil backarc oceanic crust: Solund-Stavfjord ophiolite complex of the western Norwegian Caledonides - A review

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 443-460

  Furnes, Harald ^a   Skjerlie, Kjell Petter ^b   Dilek, Yildirim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; FOSSIL; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PETROLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANDAMAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; NORWAY;

EID: 84870996643     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.443     Document Type: Review

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