Ophiolites and their origins

Elements

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 93-100

  Dilek, Yildirim ^a   Furnes, Harald ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Boninite; Continental margin ophiolite; Mid ocean ridge ophiolite; Ophiolite pulse; Plume type ophiolite; Suprasubduction zone ophiolite

Indexed keywords

TECTONICS;

BONINITES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OPHIOLITE PULSE; PLUME-TYPE OPHIOLITE; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BONINITE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EMPLACEMENT; MAGMA; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OPHIOLITE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 84901300744     PISSN: 18115209     EISSN: 18115217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gselements.10.2.93     Document Type: Article

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