Evidence for Mesoproterozoic collision, deep burial and rapid exhumation of garbenschiefer in the Namaqua Front, South Africa

Metamorphic provinces such as the ∼1 ​Ga Grenvillian, ∼400 ​Ma Caledonide and Triassic Qinling Provinces often contain rocks with high-pressure assemblages such as eclogites, which formed at mantle depths in subduction zones. These are evidence of the accretion of terranes by subduction of oceans an...

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Main Authors: Valby Van Schijndel, David H. Cornell, Robert Anczkiewicz, Anders Scherstén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-03-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987119301185