High-temperature deformation during continental-margin subduction & exhumation: The ultrahigh-pressure Western Gneiss Region of Norway

Tectonophysics

Volumn 480, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 149-171

  Hacker, Bradley R ^a   Andersen, Torgeir B ^b   Johnston, Scott ^a   Kylander Clark, Andrew R C ^a   Peterman, Emily M ^a   Walsh, Emily O ^a   Young, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Eclogite; Exhumation; Norway; Symplectite; Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHONS; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DATA SETS; EASTERN EDGE; ECLOGITES; GREENSCHIST; HIGH TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION; IN-DEGREE; LEUCOSOMES; MYLONITIC SHEAR ZONE; STUDY AREAS; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; RHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICATES;

DEFORMATION;

ALLOCHTHON; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; FOLDING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LINEATION; PETROFABRIC; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION; SYMPLECTITE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

NORWAY; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

EID: 72649097804     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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