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    a pressure-temperature range and specific starting material. Subduction zone metamorphism is characterized by a low temperature, high-ultrahigh pressure...
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    a pressure-temperature range and specific starting material. Subduction zone metamorphism is characterized by a low temperature, high-ultrahigh pressure...
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    Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture. Metamorphism takes place...
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    The Hellenic subduction zone (HSZ) is the convergent boundary between the African Plate and the Aegean Sea Plate, where oceanic crust of the African is...
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    Volcanic arc (redirect from Subduction arc)
    Back-arc basin Island arc Subduction zone metamorphism Volcanic field Volcanic island Stern, Robert J. (December 2002). "Subduction zones". Reviews of Geophysics...
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  • subduction proceeds at low thermal gradients of less than 10°C/km, the exhumation proceeds at elevated thermal gradients of 10-30°C/km. Metamorphism of...
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    processes that help bring about metamorphism. However, metamorphism can take place without metasomatism (isochemical metamorphism) or at depths of just a few...
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    Slab (geology) (category Subduction)
    In geology, the slab is a significant constituent of subduction zones . Subduction slabs drive plate tectonics by pulling along the lithosphere to which...
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    a metamorphic zone is an area where, as a result of metamorphism, the same combination of minerals occur in the bedrock. These zones occur because most...
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    Subvariscan Zone north of the Rhenohercynian Zone was untouched by Hercynian metamorphism. During the Hercynian orogeny, the Rhenohercynian zone was folded...
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    final cratonisation finished in 2400 Ma through slow cooling. Subduction zone metamorphism Geochronology Thermochronology Magma differentiation Jayananda...
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    005. ISSN 0191-8141. Searle, Michael P.; Cox, Jon (May 2002). "Subduction zone metamorphism during formation and emplacement of the Semail ophiolite in the...
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    temperature conditions which produce this type of metamorphism. List of minerals List of rock types Metamorphism "Blueschist". About.com Education. Archived...
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    mineral talc. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occur in subduction zones, changing rocks by heat and pressure, with influx...
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    collision is a variation on the fundamental process of subduction, whereby the subduction zone is destroyed, mountains produced, and two continents sutured...
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  • Thumbnail for High pressure metamorphic terranes along the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone
    ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks that are indicative of subduction zone metamorphism. The eclogites in central Tibet are of Early Mesozoic origin...
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    Serpentinite mud is the product of mantle metasomatism due to subduction zone metamorphism and slab dehydration. As a result, the serpentinite mud that...
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    indicator minerals jadeite and glaucophane, characteristic of subduction zone metamorphism. The rocks of Angel Island have been grouped with similar rocks...
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    and thrust faulting along with metamorphism and hundreds of huge granitic intrusions. The THO is a right-angled suture zone that extends eastward from Saskatchewan...
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    antigorite its perfect cleavage. Serpentine subgroup Serpentinite Subduction zone metamorphism – Hydrous minerals of a subducting slab Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC...
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    an important phenomenon in subduction zones that has a strong control on the water cycle and geodynamics of a subduction zone. Here mantle rock is cooled...
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    fractures starts the retrograde metamorphism of the new rock. The new basaltic oceanic crust eventually meets a subduction zone as it moves away from the spreading...
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    Accretionary wedge (category Subduction)
    Flysch of Penninic Unit. Subduction zone metamorphism "Introduction to the Landforms and Geology of Japan: Japan in a subduction zone". Archived from the original...
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    Without continental collision and deep subduction, high grade metamorphism is not common like other subduction zones. Most of the sedimentary strata and...
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    well over 700 miles (1,100 km). The arc formed due to subduction along the Cascadia subduction zone. Although taking its name from the Cascade Range, this...
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    classical metamorphism which is the in-situ mineralogical change of a rock without appreciable change in the chemistry of the rock. Because metamorphism usually...
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  • Permian to Triassic event consisted of arc accretion and metamorphism related to ongoing subduction. The Hunter-Bowen Orogeny is today represented by a geological...
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    Orogeny (redirect from Orogenic zone)
    batholiths. Subduction zones consume oceanic crust, thicken lithosphere, and produce earthquakes and volcanoes. Not all subduction zones produce orogenic...
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    Metamorphics, in place of the subduction reversal.: 21  The freshly consolidated Marboo Formation experienced metamorphism of various grades throughout...
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    obduction and the thrusting causes low-pressure metamorphism and forms the ophiolite complex. This metamorphism indicates the onset of hydrothermal alteration...
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