Tectonic mode switches and the nature of orogenesis

Lithos

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 274-291

  Lister, Gordon ^a   Forster, Marnie ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alpine; Metamorphism; Orogeny; Precambrian; Subduction zone dynamics; Tectonic mode switches; UHP

Indexed keywords

ANATEXIS; MAGMATISM; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PRECAMBRIAN; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70350217421     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.10.024     Document Type: Article

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