Modelling tectonic styles and ultra-high pressure (UHP) rock exhumation during the transition from oceanic subduction to continental collision

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 129-145

  Warren, C J ^a   Beaumont, C ^a   Jamieson, R A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

numerical thermal mechanical modelling; UHP formation and exhumation mechanisms; UHP metamorphism

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; METAMORPHISM; OCEANIC SUBDUCTION;

DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THERMOMECHANICS; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 39549095315     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.025     Document Type: Article

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