Duality of thermal regimes is the distinctive characteristics of plate tectonics since the Neoarchean

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 961-964

  Brown, Michael ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Backarcs; Metamorphism; Neoarchean; Neoproterozoic; Plate tectonics; Subduction

Indexed keywords

BACKARCS; GRANULITE METAMORPHISM; METAMORPHISM; NEOARCHEAN; NEOPROTEROZOIC;

GEOPHYSICS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; TECTONICS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; CAMBRIAN; CENOZOIC; GRANULITE; MARGINAL BASIN; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PHANEROZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL REGIME; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 33750937196     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22853A.1     Document Type: Article

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