Pre-collisional high pressure metamorphism and nappe tectonics at active continental margins: A numerical simulation

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 102-110

  Stöckhert, Bernhard ^a   Gerya, Taras V ^a,b,c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; METAMORPHISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 17744386792     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00589.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Burov, E., Jolivet, L., Le Pourhiet, L. and Poliakov, A., 2001. A thermomechanical model of exhumation of high pressure (HP) and ultra-high pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks in Alpine-type collision belts. Tectonophysics, 342, 113-136.
2. Carswell, D.A. and Zhang, R.Y., 1999. Petrographic characteristics and metamorphic evolution of ultrahigh-pressure eclogites in plate-collision belts. Int. Geol. Rev., 41, 781-798.
3. Chemenda, A.I., Mattauer, M., Mattavieille, J. and Bokun, A.N., 1995. A mechanism for syn-collisional rock exhumation and associated normal faulting: results from physical modelling. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 132, 225 232.
4. Chopin, C., 2003. Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism: tracing continental crust into the mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 212, 1-14.
5. Chopin, C., Henry, C. and Michard, A., 1991. Geology and petrology of the coesite-bearing terrain, Dora Maira Massif, western Alps. Ear. J. Mineral., 3, 263-291.
6. Coward, M.P. and Dietrich, D., 1989. Alpine tectonics - an overview. In: Alpine Tectonics (M.P. Coward, D. Dietrich and R.G. Park, eds). Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ., 45, 1-29.
7. Debelmas, J., Escher, A. and Trümpy, R., 1983. Profiles through the western Alps. In: Profiles of Orogenic Belts (N. Rast and F.M. Delaney, eds). Am. Geophys. Union Geodyn. Ser., 10, 83-96.
8. Duchêne, S., Lardeaux, J.-M. and Albarède, F., 1997. Exhumation of eclogites: insight from depth-time path analysis. Tectonophysics, 280, 125-140.
9. Eide, E.A. and Lion, J.G., 2000. High-pressure blueschists and eclogites in Hong'an: a framework for addressing the evolution of high- and ultrahigh-pressure rocks in central China. Lithos, 52, 1-22.
10. Ellis, S., Wissing, S. and Pfiffner, A., 2001. Strain localization as a key to reconciling experimentally derived flow-law data with dynamic models of continental collision. Int. J. Earth Sci., 90, 168-180.
11. Ernst, W.G., 1999. Metamorphism, partial preservation, and exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure belts. Island Arc, 8, 125-153.
12. Ernst, W.G. and Liou, J.G., 1999. Overview of UHP metamorphism and tectonics in well-studied collisional orogens. Int. Geol. Rev., 41, 477-493.
13. Escher, A. and Beaumont, C., 1997. Formation, burial and exhumation of basement nappes at crustal scale: a geometric model based on the western Swiss-Italian Alps. J. Struct. Geol., 19, 955 974.
14. Froitzheim, N., 2001. Origin of the Monte Rosa Nappe in the Pennine Alps - a new working hypothesis. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 113, 604-614.
15. Gerya, TN., Yuen, D.A., 2003a. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities from hydration and melting propel "cold plumes" at subduction zones. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 212, 47-62.
16. Gerya, T.V., Yuen, D.A., 2003b. Characteristics-based marker-in-cell method with conservative finite-differences schemes for modeling geological flows with strongly variable transport properties. Phys. Earth Planet. In., 140, 295-320.
17. Gerya, T.V., Perchuk, L.L., van Reenen, D.D. and Smit, C.A., 2000. Two-dimensional numerical modeling of pressure-temperature-time paths for the exhumation of some granulite facies terrains in the Precambrian. J. Geodyn., 30, 17-35.
18. Gerya, T.V., Stöckhert, B. and Perchuk, A.L., 2002. Exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in a subduction channel - a numerical simulation. Tectonics, 21, 6-1-6-19.
19. Hacker, B.R. and Lion, J.G., 1998. When Continents Collide: Geodynamics and Geochemistry of Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
20. Heinrich, C.A., 1982. Kyanite-eclogites to amphibolite facies evolution of hydrous mafic and pelitic rocks, Adula Nappe, Central Alps. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 81, 30-38.
21. Hsü, K.J., 1989. Time and place in Alpine tectonics - the Fermor lecture. In: Alpine tectonics (M.P. Coward, D. Dietrich and R.G. Park, eds). Geol. Soc. Load. Spec. Publ., 45, 421-443.
22. von Huene, R. and Scholl, D.W., 1991. Observations at convergent margins concerning sediment subduction, subduction erosion, and the growth of continental crust. Rev. Geophys., 29, 279-316.
23. Laubscher, H.P., 1988. Material balance in Alpine orogeny. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 100, 1313-1328.
24. Pfiffner, O.A., Ellis, S. and Beaumont, C., 2000. Collision tectonics in the Swiss Alps: insight from geodynamic modelling. Tectonics, 19, 1065-1094.
25. Polino, R., Dal Piaz, G.V. and Gosso, G., 1990. Tectonic erosion at the Adria margin and accretionary processes for the Cretaceous orogeny of the Alps. Mem. Soc. Geol. France, 156, 345-367.
26. Reinecke, T., 1998. Prograde high- to ultrahigh pressure metamorphism and exhumation of oceanic sediments at Lago di Cignana, Zermatt-Saas Zone, western Alps. Lithos, 42, 147-189.
27. Schmid, S.M., Pfiffner, O.A., Froitzheim, N., Schönborn, G. and Kissling, E., 1996. Geophysical-geological transect and tectonic evolution of the Swiss-Italian Alps. Tectonics, 15, 1036-1064.
28. Spalla, M.I., Lardeaux, J.-M., Dal Piaz, G.V., Gosso, G. and Messiga, B., 1996. Tectonic significance of Alpine eclogites. J. Geodyn., 21, 257-285.
29. Trümpy, R., 1960. Paleotectonic evolution of the central and western Alps. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 71, 843-908.