Exhumation settings, part I: Relatively simple cases

International Geology Review

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-120

  Ring, Uwe ^a   Brandon, Mark T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; COLLISION ZONE; EXHUMATION; NORMAL FAULT; PERIDOTITE; RIFTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THINNING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; UPWELLING;

AEGEAN SEA; AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 38849173132     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.50.2.97     Document Type: Review

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