Exhumation of high-pressure rocks driven by slab rollback

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Brun, Jean Pierre ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aegean; Calabria Apennine; exhumation of HP rocks; subduction rollback

Indexed keywords

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY FORCING; COMPLEX FORMATIONS; CONTINENTAL (CO); CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EROSION RATES; HIGH PRESSURE ROCKS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MANTLE WEDGE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRANSIENT PROCESSES; ULTRA HIGH;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; COLLOIDS; EROSION; FISH; FLUID MECHANICS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE; SOIL MECHANICS; THEOREM PROVING;

ROCKS;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC WEDGE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

APENNINES; CALABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 47749156366     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.038     Document Type: Article

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