Mantle compensation of active metamorphic core complexes at Woodlark rift in Papua New Guinea

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6900, 2002, Pages 862-865

  Abers, Geoffrey A ^a   Ferris, Aaron ^a   Craig, Mitchell ^e   Davies, Hugh ^b   Lerner Lam, Arthur L ^c   Mutter, John C ^c   Taylor, Brian ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY;

MANTLE COMPENSATION; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES;

TECTONICS;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MOHO;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; GEOLOGY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

MOHO;

EID: 0037158714     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00990     Document Type: Article

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