The mechanism of melt extraction from lower continental crust of orogens

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 389, Issue , 2004, Pages 35-48

  Brown, Michael ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal melting; Deformation bands; Ductile opening mode fractures; Magma ascent; Melt flow networks; Melt fluxes; Spatial patterning

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DEFORMATION; FRACTALS; FRACTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRANITE; MELTING; MICA;

DEFORMATION BAND; MAGMA ASCENTS; MELT FLOW; MELT FLUX; OPENING MODE FRACTURE; SPATIAL PATTERNING;

EXTRACTION;

ANISOTROPY; BIOTITE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRITICAL STATE; DEFORMATION; DIKE; DILATION; EXTRACTION METHOD; GRAIN BOUNDARY; GRANULITE; LINEATION; MELT INCLUSION; MIGMATITE; OROGENY; SHEAR BAND;

BRETAGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 74949124457     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2389-2.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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