Rapid exhumation of lower crust during continent-continent collision and late extension: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating of hornblendes and muscovites, Caledonian orogen, western Norway

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1425-1437

  Boundy, T M ^a,c   Essene, E J ^a   Hall, C M ^a   Austrheim, H ^b   Halliday, A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; BUILDINGS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CLOSURE TEMPERATURES; CONTINENT-CONTINENT COLLISIONS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; WESTERN GNEISS REGION; CRUSTAL ROCKS; MOVEMENT HISTORY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOBAROMETRY;

TECTONICS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; HEATING; HORNBLENDE; LOWER CRUST; MUSCOVITE; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; CALEDONIAN OROGENY;

BERGEN; BERGEN ARCS; HORDALAND; NORWAY;

EID: 0030442008     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1425:REOLCD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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