Evidence from ophiolites, blueschists, and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes that the modern episode of subduction tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 557-560

  Stern, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Blueschist; Neoproterozoic; Ophiolites; Plate tectonics; Subduction; Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; PLANETARY HEAT LOSS; PLATE-DRIVING FORCE; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC TERRANES;

CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); HEAT LOSSES; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; PLANETS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

METAMORPHIC ROCK; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 21944433208     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21365.1     Document Type: Article

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