Exhumation of (ultra-)high-pressure terranes: Concepts and mechanisms

Solid Earth

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-92

  Warren, C J ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GRAIN-SIZE REDUCTION; METAMORPHIC REACTIONS; PLATE SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION CHANNELS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES;

BUOYANCY; SHEAR FLOW;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXHUMATION; OROGENY; PHANEROZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TERRANE;

EID: 84877991965     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-4-75-2013     Document Type: Article

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