The Timor ophiolite, Indonesia: Model or myth?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 321-330

  Harris, Ron ^a   Long, Timothy ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; GEOCHEMISTRY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; CONFLICTING EVIDENCE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; MODERN ANALOGUES; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SPINEL-LHERZOLITE; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE;

MINERALS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; MELANGE; OPHIOLITE; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; THRUST FAULT;

INDONESIA;

EID: 84871031534     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.321     Document Type: Article

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