Formation and evolution of Precambrian granulite terranes: A gravitational redistribution model

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 207, Issue , 2011, Pages 289-310

  Perchuk, Leonid L ^a,b,c   Gerya, Taras V ^a,d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TEXTURES;

CONVECTION CELL; CRUSTAL-SCALE SHEAR ZONES; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; GREENSTONE BELTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOBARIC COOLING; MINERAL EQUILIBRIA; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE;

COOLING;

COOLING; CRATON; DECOMPRESSION; EXHUMATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; GRANITE; GRANULITE; GREENSTONE; GREENSTONE BELT; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PELITE; PRECAMBRIAN; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 80051878428     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.1207(15)     Document Type: Article

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