Crustal segmentation, composite looping pressure-temperature paths, and magma-enhanced metamorphic field gradients: Upper Granite Gorge, Grand Canyon, USA

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 202-220

  Dumond, Gregory ^a   Mahan, Kevin H ^a,c   Williams, Michael L ^a   Karlstrom, Karl E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel flow; Continental crust; Grand Canyon; P T t D path; Rheology

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL SEGMENTATION; METAMORPHISM;

CHANNEL FLOW; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

PETROLOGY;

CHANNEL FLOW; CONTINENTAL CRUST; P-T-T PATH; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROLOGY; RHEOLOGY;

ARIZONA; GRAND CANYON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846496673     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25903.1     Document Type: Article

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