Exhumation mechanisms of melt-bearing ultrahigh pressure crustal rocks during collision of spontaneously moving plates

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 927-955

  Sizova, E ^a   Gerya, T ^a,b   Brown, M ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental subduction; Diapirism; Exhumation of UHPM rocks; Extrusion of HT UHPM rocks; Melting at (U)HPM

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PROCESS; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION; CONVERGENCE VELOCITY; DIAPIRISM; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOVING PLATE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SLAB BREAK-OFF; SUBDUCTED CONTINENTAL CRUST; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE CRUSTAL ROCKS; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC; WEAKENING EFFECT;

CHANNEL FLOW; DELAMINATION; EXTRUSION; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; NUMERICAL MODELS; ROCKS;

EXPERIMENTS;

CHANNEL FLOW; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DELAMINATION; DIAPIRISM; EXHUMATION; GEODYNAMICS; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROLOGY; SUBDUCTION; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 84868201884     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2012.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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