Tectonic significance of changes in post-subduction Pliocene-Quaternary magmatism in the south east part of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 502, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 146-157

  Seghedi, Ioan ^a   Maţenco, Liviu ^b   Downes, Hilary ^c   Mason, Paul R D ^d   Szakács, Alexandru ^a,e   Pécskay, Zoltán ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEODYNAMICS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

^f INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adakite magmas; Alkalic magmas; Post collisional magmatism; Slab mechanics

Indexed keywords

ADAKITES; ADRIATIC; ALKALIC MAGMAS; ALKALINE VOLCANISM; BUILDING PROCESS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; EASTERN EDGE; GEODYNAMIC PROCESS; INVERSION TECTONICS; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA COMPOSITION; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATISMS; MELT PRODUCTION; MELTING MECHANISM; MICROPLATES; PANNONIAN BASIN; PLIOCENE; POST-COLLISIONAL MAGMATISM; SLAB MECHANICS; STRAIN PARTITIONING; TECTONIC SETTINGS; ULTRAPOTASSIC MAGMA; VRANCEA;

GEODYNAMICS; MECHANICS; PETROGRAPHY; SODIUM;

TECTONICS;

ADAKITE; COLLISION ZONE; CONVERGENCE; GEODYNAMICS; MAGMATISM; MICROPLATE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

CARPATHIANS; PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 79953679284     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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