Crustal melting, ductile flow, and deformation in mountain belts: Cause and effect relationships

Lithosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 547-554

  Searle, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE-AND-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; DEFORMATION ZONE; DUCTILE SHEARING; LITHOSPHERIC RHEOLOGY; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; QUESTION MODELS; REGIONAL METAMORPHISMS; THREE DIMENSIONS;

GRANITE; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION;

BATHOLITH; CHANNEL FLOW; CRUST; DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; FAULTING; LEUCOGRANITE; MAGMATISM; MELTING; METAMORPHISM; MIGMATITE; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN; OROGENIC BELT; PARTIAL MELTING; PROTEROZOIC; RHEOLOGY; TERRANE;

COLORADO; HIMALAYAS; KARAKORAM; RED RIVER [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; WET MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84889663213     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/RF.L006.1     Document Type: Article

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