Characteristic thermal regimes of plate tectonics and their metamorphic imprint throughout earth history: when did earth first adopt a plate tectonics mode of behavior?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 440, Issue , 2008, Pages 97-128

  Brown, Michael ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Blueschist metamorphism; Eclogite high pressure granulite metamorphism; Paired metamorphic belts; Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism; Ultrahigh temperature meta morphism

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEODYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; LITHOLOGY; METALS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE;

BLUESCHISTS; HIGH-PRESSURE GRANULITES; METAMORPHIC BELTS; MORPHISMS; ULTRA-HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISMS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

BLUESCHIST FACIES; ECLOGITE; GEODYNAMICS; GRANULITE FACIES; HEAT FLOW; OROGENY; P-T CONDITIONS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; SOURCE ROCK; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMAL REGIME; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

CALLUNA VULGARIS; PHANER;

EID: 75349095898     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2440(05)     Document Type: Article

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