Kinematic and thermal evolution during two-stage exhumation of a Mediterranean subduction complex

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Behr, W M ^a   Platt, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINOSILICATES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

BETIC CORDILLERA; CHANNEL GEOMETRY; CO-AXIAL; DETACHMENT FAULT; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; LATE STAGE; LEADING EDGE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; P-T PATH; PEAK TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN SPAIN; STRETCHING LINEATIONS; SUBDUCTING SLABS; TECTONIC MODELS; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMOBAROMETRY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

KINEMATICS;

ALUMINOSILICATE; BAROMETRY; EXHUMATION; GEOMETRY; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; KINEMATICS; PRESSURE; SUBDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84865731506     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012TC003121     Document Type: Article

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