Subduction of continental margins and the uplift of high-pressure metamorphic rocks

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 140, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 13-25

  Hynes, Andrew ^a   Arkani Hamed, Jafar ^a   Greiling, Reinhard ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continental margin; Emplacement; Metamorphic rocks; Subduction; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; METAMORPHIC ROCK; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT;

EID: 0030471065     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(96)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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