Journal article
Formation and Exhumation of Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes
Elements, Vol.9(4), pp.289-293
2013
DOI: 10.2113/gselements.9.4.289
Abstract
The reigning paradigm for the formation and exhumation of continental ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) terranes is the subduction of crust to mantle depths and the return of crustal slices within the subduction channel—all at plate tectonic rates. Additional processes beyond the paradigm are needed to explain the diversity of geological observations gathered from the growing study of UHP terranes—for example, variations in the size, degree of deformation, petrologic evolution, timing of UHP metamorphism, and exhumation rates. Numerical models that evaluate physical parameters in time and space have produced new insights into the formation and exhumation of UHP terranes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Formation and Exhumation of Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes
- Creators
- Bradley R Hacker - Department of Earth Science, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, CA 93106, USAE-mail:Taras V Gerya - École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneJane A Gilotti - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Elements, Vol.9(4), pp.289-293
- DOI
- 10.2113/gselements.9.4.289
- ISSN
- 1811-5209
- eISSN
- 1811-5217
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984230124902771
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