Exhumation of orogenic crust: Diapiric ascent versus low-angle normal faulting

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 380, Issue , 2004, Pages 129-139

  Fayon, Annia K ^a   Whitney, Donna L ^a   Teyssier, Christian ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DOMES; ISOTHERMS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

COMPLEX EVOLUTIONS; DETACHMENT FAULTING; ISOTHERMAL DECOMPRESSION; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; METAMORPHIC TERRAINS; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME PATHS; PRIMARY MECHANISM; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS;

FAULT SLIPS;

DIAPIR; EXHUMATION; FAULTING; GNEISS; HEAT FLUX; METAMORPHISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENIC BELT;

EID: 84870778968     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2380-9.129     Document Type: Article

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