Thermal regime and gravitational instability of multi-layered continental crust: Implications for the buoyant exhumation of high-grade metamorphic rocks

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 687-699

  Gerya, Taras V ^a   Perchuk, Leonid L ^a   Maresch, Walter V ^a   Willner, Arne P ^a   Van Reenen, Dirk D ^a   Smit, C Andre ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Crustal diapirism; Gravitational instability; Layered continental crust; Thermal modeling

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; LEAD COMPOUNDS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DIAPIRISM; GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC ROCKS; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; RADIOGENIC HEAT PRODUCTION; THERMAL MODEL;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

BUOYANCY; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DIAPIRISM; EXHUMATION; GRAVITY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0036312140     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2002/0014-0687     Document Type: Article

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