Exhumation of deep orogenic crust

Lithosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 439-443

  Teyssier, Christian ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GRANULITE FACIES; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUBDUCTION CHANNELS; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE;

MELTING;

BUOYANCY; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXHUMATION; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CRUST; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; VISCOSITY;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84855609324     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/RF.L002.1     Document Type: Article

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