Multi-stage exhumation of young UHP-HP rocks: Timescales of melt crystallization in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, southeastern Papua New Guinea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 351-352, Issue , 2012, Pages 237-246

  Gordon, S M ^a   Little, T A ^b   Hacker, B R ^c   Bowring, S A ^d   Korchinski, M ^b   Baldwin, S L ^e   Kylander Clark, A R C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CA TIMS; Eclogite; Exhumation; Papua New Guinea; Partial melting

Indexed keywords

CA-TIMS; ECLOGITES; EXHUMATION; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARTIAL MELTING;

DOMES; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; ZIRCON;

LEVEES;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ECLOGITE; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIGH PRESSURE; LEUCOSOME; MELT; PARTIAL MELTING; TIMESCALE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

D'ENTRECASTEAUX ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84865569880     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.014     Document Type: Article

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