Localized granulite and eclogite facies metamorphism at Flatraket and Kråkeneset, Western Gneiss Region: U-Pb data and tectonic implications

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 390, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 425-442

  Corfu, Fernando ^a   Austrheim, Hå kon ^b   Ganzhorn, Anne Céline ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Physics of Geological Processes   (Norway)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATEXIS; BADDELEYITE; ECLOGITE; EMPLACEMENT; GRANULITE; GRANULITE FACIES; METASOMATISM; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

EID: 84897944710     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP390.22     Document Type: Article

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