Significance of serpentine mud volcanism in convergent margins

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 35-51

  Fryer, Patricia ^a   Lockwood, John P ^b   Becker, Nathan ^a   Phipps, Steven ^c   Todd, Clifford S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Geohazards Consultants International Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MAGNESITE; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES; VOLCANOES;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; INTRUSIVE ROCKS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MUD VOLCANOES; PACIFIC PLATES; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SERPENTINIZED PERIDOTITES; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SERPENTINE;

BLUESCHIST FACIES; CONVERGENT MARGIN; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; LOW TEMPERATURE; MELANGE; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MUD VOLCANO; SEAMOUNT; SERPENTINITE;

EID: 84871028242     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.35     Document Type: Article

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