Models of large, hot orogens containing a collage of reworked and accreted terranes
Models of large, hot orogens containing a collage of reworked and accreted terranes
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DOI:
10.1139/e10-002
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发表时间:
2010-05
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1.4
通讯作者:
C. Beaumont;R. Jamieson;M. Nguyen
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作者:
C. Beaumont;R. Jamieson;M. Nguyen
We describe a classification scheme for orogens using Temperature–Magnitude (T–M) diagrams and use this framework for modelling large, hot orogens that evolve in continents comprising cratonic nuclei bordered by a series of juvenile accreted, reworked, and metamorphosed terranes. Modelling the complete evolution of an orogen is difficult, particularly large orogens with multiple orogenic phases. Early phases during which a continent is assembled produce a tectonic and metamorphic fabric that needs to be taken into account when modelling the main collisional orogeny. This inherited fabric is represented in a simple way in models described here by a series of lower crustal blocks that are arranged to be systematically stronger toward the cratonic continental interiors. We investigate how this fabric influences the development of the model orogen during the main collisional phase using upper-mantle-scale (UMS) and crustal-scale (CS) finite element models. The models exhibit a diachronous three-phase evolutio...