Thermal evolution and exhumation in obliquely convergent (transpressive) orogens

Tectonophysics

Volumn 280, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 171-184

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

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Metamorphism; Oblique orogens; Soft orogens; Transpression

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHISM; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

EID: 0031412693     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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