Geology of the Gorny Altai subduction-accretion complex, southern Siberia: Tectonic evolution of an Ediacaran-Cambrian intra-oceanic arc-trench system

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 666-695

  Ota, Tsutomu ^a   Utsunomiya, Atsushi ^a   Uchio, Yuko ^a   Isozaki, Yukio ^b   Buslov, Mikhail M ^c   Ishikawa, Akira ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a   Kitajima, Koki ^a   Kaneko, Yoshiyuki ^d   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^e   Katayama, Ikuo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary complex; Boninite; Central Asian Orogenic Belt; High P T metamorphism; Pacific type orogeny; Siberia

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CAMBRIAN; EDIACARAN; EXHUMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; OPHIOLITE; OROGENIC BELT; P-T CONDITIONS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRENCH;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 34250850757     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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