A mechanism for transforming buoyant North Chinese cratonic lithosphere to a denser equivalent for delamination

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 280, Issue , 2007, Pages 317-330

  Deng, J F ^a   Zhou, M F ^b   Flower, M F J ^c   Su, S G ^a   Zhai, M G ^d   Liu, C ^a   Zhao, G C ^a   Zhao, X G ^a   Zhou, S ^a   Wu, Z W ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRATON; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; ECLOGITE; EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METASOMATISM; OROGENY; P-T-T PATH; PETROLOGY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34447576856     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP280.17     Document Type: Article

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