Mantle underplating, granite tectonics, and metamorphic P-T-t paths

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 663-666

  Warren, Rosalyn G ^a   Ellis, David J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; TECTONICS; GRANITE;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; INCREASE IN PRESSURE; ISOBARIC COOLING; LATERAL MIGRATION; MANTLE DERIVED MAGMAS; SOURCE REGION; TECTONIC THICKENING; MANTLE PLUME; P-T-T PATH; UNDERPLATING; UPPER CRUST;

GRANITE; TECTONICS;

GRANITE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; P-T-T PATH; SHEAR ZONE; UNDERPLATING; CONTINENTAL CRUST; MANTLE PLUME; P/T/T PATH; TECTONICS;

EID: 0030452552     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0663:MUGTAM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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