Fate of the subducted Farallon plate inferred from eclogite xenoliths in the Colorado Plateau

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 589-592

  Usui, Tomohiro ^a   Nakamura, Eizo ^a   Kobayashi, Katsura ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^b   Helmstaedt, Herwart ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coesite; Colorado Plateau; Eclogite xenolith; Farallon plate; U Pb age; Zircon

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHISM;

CRYSTALLIZATION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MINERALS; PROBES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COESITE; ECLOGITE; HIGH PRESSURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION; XENOLITH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0043204596     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0589:FOTSFP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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