Exhumation of oceanic blueschists and eclogites in subduction zones: timing and mechanisms

P Agard, P Yamato, L Jolivet, E Burov - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
High-pressure low-temperature (HP–LT) metamorphic rocks provide invaluable constraints
on the evolution of convergent zones. Based on a worldwide compilation of key information …

Exhumation processes in oceanic and continental subduction contexts: a review

S Guillot, K Hattori, P Agard, S Schwartz… - Subduction zone …, 2009 - Springer
Although the exhumation of high pressure (HP) and ultrahigh pressure (UHP) rocks is an
integral process in subduction, it is a transient process, likely taking place during the …

Exhumation of high‐pressure metamorphic rocks in a subduction channel: A numerical simulation

TV Gerya, B Stöckhert, AL Perchuk - Tectonics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
High‐pressure metamorphic rocks provide evidence that in subduction zones material can
return from depths of more than 100 km to the surface. The pressure‐temperature paths …

Blueschists and eclogites of the world and their exhumation

S Maruyama, JG Liou… - International geology …, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
High-P/T metamorphic belts were classified into types A and B according to their protoliths.
The A-type (collision-type) blueschists possess passive-margin protoliths characterized by …

Anatomy of a subduction complex: Architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales

J Wakabayashi - International Geology Review, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The Franciscan Complex of California records over 150 million years of continuous E-
dipping subduction that terminated with conversion to a dextral transform plate boundary …

Tethyan and Indian subduction viewed from the Himalayan high-to ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks

S Guillot, G Mahéo, J De Sigoyer, KH Hattori, A Pecher - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
The Himalayan range is one of the best documented continent-collisional belts and provides
a natural laboratory for studying subduction processes. High-pressure and ultrahigh …

[PDF][PDF] Eclogite Formation and the Rheology, Buoyancy, Seismicity, and H~ 2O Content of Oceanic Crust

BR Hacker, GE Bebout - Geophysical Monograph-American …, 1996 - researchgate.net
A broad spectrum of variably altered igneous rocks with a wide range of grain sizes are
compressed and heated over a wide range of pressure-temperature paths in subduction …

Triassic blueschists and eclogites from northwest Turkey: vestiges of the Paleo-Tethyan subduction

AI Okay, O Monod, P Monié - Lithos, 2002 - Elsevier
Triassic eclogite and blueschist facies rocks occur as a thrust sheet, 25-km long and over 2-
km thick, in an Eocene fold-and-thrust belt in northwest Turkey along the İzmir–Ankara …

Boron isotopic composition of subduction-zone metamorphic rocks

SM Peacock, RL Hervig - Chemical Geology, 1999 - Elsevier
Many arc lavas contain material derived from subducted oceanic crust and sediments, but it
remains unresolved whether this distinctive geochemical signature is transferred from the …

The stability and composition of phengitic muscovite and associated phases from 5.5 to 11 GPa: Implications for deeply subducted sediments

KJ Domanik, JR Holloway - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1996 - Elsevier
The stability and composition of phengitic muscovite was investigated from 5.5–11 GPa, 700–
1150° C in synthesis experiments performed in a multianvil apparatus. Starting materials …