Spatial and temporal relationships between ophiolites and their metamorphic soles: A test of models of forearc ophiolite genesis

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 53-64

  Wakabayashi, John ^a   Dilek, Yildirim ^b  

^a Miami University ^*  (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OPHIOLITE; PETROLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 84871013173     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.53     Document Type: Review

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