Gneiss domes and crustal flow

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 380, Issue , 2004, Pages 15-33

  Whitney, Donna L ^a   Teyssier, Christian ^a   Vanderhaeghe, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Crustal flow; Decompression; Gneiss dome; Metamorphic rocks; Orogeny

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DECOMPRESSION; DOME; GNEISS; GRANITOID; OROGENY; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 84870770108     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2380-9.15     Document Type: Review

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