2Gpa has increased to more than 15.
This indicates that subduction of continental fragments to depths of 100-150 km may have played a significant role in the formation of mountain belts.
This volume brings together the geochemical, geophysical and geodynamical approaches to study the processes active during ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) tectonics.
The collection of papers demarkates the frontier of our understanding of the creation, preservation, and exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure rocks.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to any earth scientist interested in ultrahigh pressure processes and the formation and modification of continental crust.
| ISBN: | 9789048140282 |
| Publication date: | 4th December 2010 |
| Author: | Bradley R Hacker, J G Liou |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Petrology and Structural Geology |
| Genres: |
Petrology, petrography and mineralogy Geochemistry Geophysics |