Pliocene eclogite exhumation at plate tectonic rates in eastern Papua New Guinea

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7006, 2004, Pages 263-267

  Baldwin, Suzanne L ^a   Monteleone, Brian B ^a   Webb, Laura E ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul G ^a   Grove, Marty ^b   Hill, E June ^c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MINERAL RESOURCES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE EFFECTS; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC PLATES;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

LANTHANIDE; LEAD; THORIUM; URANIUM 238; ZIRCONIUM;

ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; PLATE TECTONICS; PLIOCENE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; KINEMATICS; LITHOSPHERE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLIOCENE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SHEAR STRESS; TECTONIC PLATE; TEMPERATURE;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 4644238081     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02846     Document Type: Article

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