Role of oceanic plateaus in the initiation of subduction and origin of continental crust

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 583-586

  Nair, Rajeev ^a   Chacko, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continental crust; Dehydration melting; Garnet stability; Subduction initiation; Tonalite trondhjemite granodiorite

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEHYDRATION MELTING; GARNET STABILITY; SUBDUCTION INITIATION; TONALITE-TRONDHJEMITE-GRANODIORITE;

DEWATERING; GARNETS; MINERALS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

MELTING;

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DEHYDRATION; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GRANODIORITE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MELTING; MODELING; PLATEAU; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE;

EID: 50349094736     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24773A.1     Document Type: Article

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