Tethyan ophiolites, mantle convection, and tectonic "historical contingency": A resolution of the "ophiolite conundrum"

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 3-12

  Moores, Eldridge M ^a   Kellogg, Louise H ^a   Dilek, Yildirim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; HISTORICAL CONTINGENCIES; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; MID-OCEANIC-RIDGE BASALTS; SERPENTINIZED PERIDOTITES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ISLAND ARC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OPHIOLITE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TETHYS; VOLCANIC ARC;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84871019620     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.3     Document Type: Article

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