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    How does the continental crust get really hot?

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    Authors
    Clark, Chris
    Fitzsimons, Ian
    Healy, David
    Harley, S.
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Clark, Chris and Fitzsimons, Ian C.W. and Healy, David and Harley, Simon L. 2011. How does the continental crust get really hot? Elements. 7 (4): pp. 235-240.
    Source Title
    Elements: an international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology
    DOI
    10.2113/gselements.7.4.235
    ISSN
    1811-5209
    School
    Department of Applied Geology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15552
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    There is widespread evidence that ultra-high temperatures of 900-1000 °C have been generated in the Earth’s crust repeatedly in time and space, and that they were associated with thickened crust in collisional mountain belts and the production of large volumes of magma. Numerical modelling indicates that a long-lived mountain plateau with high internal concentrations of heat-producing elements and low erosion rates is the most likely setting for such extreme conditions, although preferential thickening of already-hot back-arc basins and mechanical heating by deformation in ductile shear zones might also contribute to elevated temperatures.

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