Extrusion tectonics and elevation of lower crustal metamorphic rocks in convergent orogens

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 491-494

  Thompson, Alan Bruce ^a   Schulmann, Karel ^b   Jezek, Josef ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION;

BURIAL DEPTHS; EXTRUSION TECTONICS; ISOTHERMAL DECOMPRESSION; LITHOSPHERIC; OROGENIC BELTS; PLATE VELOCITY; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME PATHS; RATE OF CONVERGENCE;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ELEVATION; LOWER CRUST; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS; COLLISION ZONE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS;

EID: 0030729159     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0491:ETAEOL>2.3.CO     Document Type: Article

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