Fabric kinematics of the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from the main borehole of the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Project: Implications for continental subduction and exhumation

Tectonophysics

Volumn 475, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-250

  Xu, Zhiqin ^a   Wang, Qin ^b   Tang, Zhemin ^a   Chen, Fangyuan ^a  

^a Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar dating; Continental subduction; Exhumation; Kinematics; Lattice preferred orientation; Sulu terrane

Indexed keywords

40AR/39AR DATING; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION; EXHUMATION; LATTICE-PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SULU TERRANE;

DRILLING; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GARNETS; HOUSING; KINEMATICS; METAL VAPOR LAMPS; MICA; OLIVINE; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SILICATE MINERALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE; ASYMMETRY; BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; CHINESE CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT; DEFORMATION; DIP-SLIP FAULT; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; KINEMATICS; LINEATION; PETROFABRIC; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SULU BELT; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 70349112744     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.02.041     Document Type: Article

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