Affiliation:
1. Institut für Geologie, Universität Würzburg Pleicherwall 1, D-97070 Würzburg, Germanya.henk@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Abstract
AbstractThermo-mechanical finite element models are used to study foreland-directed lower-crustal flow as a potential process to transport high-pressure-high-temperature (HP-HT) rocks from a continental collision zone to areas that have never experienced crustal thickening or deep burial. The numerical simulations show that lower-crustal rocks can indeed flow over substantial horizontal and vertical distances, provided a thermal anomaly reducing lithospheric strength exists in the foreland. As lower-crustal flow is a fast process compared with conductive heat transport and occurs subparallel to the isotherms, the resultingPTpath of the rocks exhumed will be characterized by near-isothermal decompression. Modelling results are applied to the Saxonian Granulite Massif in Eastern Germany, where HP-HT granulites have been exhumed beneath a marine sedimentary basin during the Variscan Orogeny.
Publisher
Geological Society of London
Subject
Geology,Ocean Engineering,Water Science and Technology
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20 articles.
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