Lu-Hf garnet geochronology applied to plate boundary zones: Insights from the (U)HP terrane exhumed within the Woodlark Rift

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 56-66

  Zirakparvar, N A ^a   Baldwin, S L ^a   Vervoort, J D ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lu Hf garnet geochronology; Papua New Guinea; UHP metamorphism

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; AUSTRALIA; CENOZOIC; COESITE-ECLOGITE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; ISOTOPIC RECORD; LATE MIOCENE; LU-HF GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; OROGENIC BELTS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARTIAL MELT; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLEISTOCENE; PORPHYROBLASTS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME-SCALES; UHP METAMORPHISM; WOODLARK RIFT;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); ROCKS; TECTONICS;

GARNETS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRETACEOUS; GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; HIGH PRESSURE; LUTETIUM; MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLEISTOCENE; RIFT ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 79961129730     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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