Tectonic thinning of a crust slice at high pressure and high temperature by ductile-slab breakoff (Cabo Ortegal Complex, northwest Spain)

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 453-456

  Llana Fúnez, Sergio ^a   Marcos, Alberto ^b   Galán, Gumer ^c   Fernández, Francisco José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cabo Ortegal; Eclogite facies deformation; High pressure; Slab breakoff; Subduction

Indexed keywords

MAFIC ROCKS; NORTHWEST SPAIN; PALEOZOIC SUBDUCTION; TRANSITIONAL MAFIC CRUST; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS;

DEFORMATION; DUCTILITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TECTONICS; ZONING;

ROCKS;

METAMORPHISM; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

CABO ORTEGAL; EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; LA CORUNA [GALICIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 2442453297     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20280.1     Document Type: Article

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