Economic Geology; August 2005; v. 100; no. 5;
p. 1052-1053; DOI: 10.2113/100.5.1052-a
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Ophiolites in Earth History, Geological Society Special Publication 218.
Y. DILEK AND P. T. ROBINSON, EDITORS. Pp. 717. Geological Society Publishing House, Unit 7, Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Lane, Bath BA1 3 JN, United Kingdom. 2003. ISBN 1862391459. Price £95.00.
Damon A.H. Teagle
School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14-3ZH, United Kingdom
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This weighty tome (717 pages) is published hot on the heels of a number of other special volumes edited by Dilek and colleagues and also dedicated to ophiolite science (e.g., Dilek et al., 2000; Dilek and Newcomb, 2003). The volume is a collection of 32 papers that examine a wide range of igneous, metamorphic, and, particularly, tectonic processes associated with the formation and obduction of oceanic crust as recorded in ophiolite belts . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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