Crustal stacking and expulsion tectonics during continental subduction: P-T deformation constraints from Oman

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Agard, Philippe ^a   Searle, Michael P ^b   Alsop, G Ian ^c   Dubacq, B ^d  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CARBONATES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BLUESCHISTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; DEFORMATION CONSTRAINTS; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE; ECLOGITES; FOOTWALL UPLIFT; HIGH STRAINS; MESOZOIC; NORMAL FAULTS; PERMIAN; POST-PEAK; SHEAR ZONE; SHEATH FOLD; STRUCTURAL UNIT; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPERATURE PATHS; UPPER PLATE;

TECTONICS;

BLUESCHIST; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; FOOTWALL; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENT; NORMAL FAULT; P-T CONDITIONS; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS; SAIH HATAT;

EID: 78149332741     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002669     Document Type: Article

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