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| Gneiss Domes in Orogeny |
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| | edited by | Donna L. Whitney
Christian Teyssier
Christine S. Siddoway
| | Year Published: | 2004 | | Total Pages: | 378 | | ISBN: | 0813723809 | | Product Code: | SPE380 | | Domal structures cored by high-grade metamorphic rocks and granite occur in every exhumed mountain belt worldwide, representing orogenic events from the Archean to the present. Field relationships, thermal histories, and results of modeling of these structures show that dome emplacement and orogenesis are intimately related. Flow of crust in domes focuses lithospheric deformation and strain and is dynamically linked to surface processes. This book illustrates that domes are archives of information about first-order tectonic processes common to contractional, extensional, and transcurrent regimes. Investigations in structural geology, metamorphic and igneous petrology, geochronology, thermochronology, geophysics, and geomorphology, presented in this volume, explore the origin and dynamics of gneiss domes in diverse tectonic settings. |
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