Inherent gravitational instability of hot continental crust: Implications for doming and diapirism in granulite facies terrains

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 380, Issue , 2004, Pages 97-115

  Gerya, Taras V ^a,b   Perchuk, Leonid L ^c   Maresch, Walter V ^d   Willner, Arne P ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collision; Granulite facies metamorphism; Gravitational redistribution; High grade terrains; Rock density modeling; Two dimensional numerical experiments

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERAL EXPLORATION; STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EXPANSION;

COLLISION; GRANULITE FACIES; GRAVITATIONAL REDISTRIBUTION; HIGH GRADES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ROCK DENSITY;

MINERALS;

ARC-ARC COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DIAPIRISM; DOME; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; GRANULITE FACIES; GRAVITY FLOW; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; INSTABILITY; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 84870810690     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2380-9.97     Document Type: Article

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