Strain heating as a mechanism for partial melting and ultrahigh temperature metamorphism in convergent orogens: Implications of temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity and rheology

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Nabelek, Peter I ^a   Whittington, Alan G ^a   Hofmeister, Anne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; HEAT PRODUCTION; LEUCOGRANITE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OROGENY; PARTIAL MELTING; POWER LAW; QUARTZITE; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN RATE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF;

EID: 78650556352     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007727     Document Type: Article

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