The maksyutov complex: The first UHP terrane 40 years later

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 419, Issue , 2007, Pages 153-169

  Beane, Rachel ^a   Leech, Mary ^b,c  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Geochemistry; Geochronology; Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism; Ural Mountains

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; GARNETS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SILICA; SLAB MILLS;

EUROPEAN PLATFORM; EXHUMATION; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; RADIAL FRACTURES; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; ULTRA-HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISMS; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE; URAL MOUNTAINS;

LEVEES;

BASALT; CAMBRIAN; COESITE; EXHUMATION; GARNET; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISLAND ARC; METAMORPHISM; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; PROTOLITH; QUARTZ; QUARTZITE; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE;

MAKSYUTOV COMPLEX; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; RUSSIAN PLATFORM; URALS;

EID: 54849416656     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2419(08)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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