Cordilleran-type orogeny and episodic growth of continents: Insights from the circum-Pacific continental margins

Island Arc

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 206-217

  Tagami, Takahiro ^a   Hasebe, Noriko ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary wedge; Continental growth; Cordilleran type orogeny; Episodic magmatism; Exhumation; Geochronology; Mid Cretaceous pulsation

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; EXHUMATION; MAGMATISM; OROGENY;

EID: 0032724526     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.1999.00232.x     Document Type: Article

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