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dc.contributor.authorPutnis, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorJamtveit, B.
dc.contributor.authorAustrheim, H.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18T07:58:56Z
dc.date.available2018-05-18T07:58:56Z
dc.date.created2018-05-18T00:23:01Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationPutnis, A. and Jamtveit, B. and Austrheim, H. 2017. Metamorphic processes and seismicity: The Bergen Arcs as a natural laboratory. Journal of Petrology. 58 (10): pp. 1871-1898.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67553
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/petrology/egx076
dc.description.abstract

In the Bergen Arcs rocks that formed the root zone of the Caledonian mountain chain formed by the collision of Laurentia and Baltica at ~400 Ma are exposed. They display a well-exposed, highgrade metamorphic terrane where Sveconorwegian granulites and Caledonian eclogite and amphibolite parageneses coexist spatially and provide challenging problems related to their interrelationships and their geodynamic settings. Some of the ideas that have been proposed for the formation of the granulites and the mechanism of their retrograde hydration during the Caledonian orogeny are reviewed. We make some preliminary microstructural observations on the earliest stages of retrogression and suggest that much progress in understanding metamorphism in terranes such as the Bergen Arcs could be made by greater attention to the relationship between seismicity and metamorphism. The Bergen Arcs provide a natural laboratory in which it should possible to elucidate the extent to which seismicity and cataclasis are a necessary precursor to fluid infiltration and metamorphism, the volume of rock processed by cataclasis during an orogenic event and the role of deviatoric stress in the metamorphic reactions.

dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.titleMetamorphic processes and seismicity: The Bergen Arcs as a natural laboratory
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume58
dcterms.source.number10
dcterms.source.startPage1871
dcterms.source.endPage1898
dcterms.source.issn0022-3530
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Petrology
curtin.departmentThe Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR)
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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