The role of partial melting and extensional strain rates in the development of metamorphic core complexes

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• migmatite 100%
• strain rate 95%
• partial melting 91%
• dome 79%
• melt 49%
• crust 41%
• geothermal gradient 32%
• upper crust 28%
• exhumation 28%
• material 27%
• normal fault 27%
• viscosity 21%
• P-T-t path 20%
• ruby 19%
• rate 18%
• ellipse 15%
• footwall 15%
• solid state 14%
• lower crust 13%
• thinning 13%
• buoyancy 12%
• dip 12%
• advection 11%
• crystallization 11%
• cooling 9%
• geometry 9%
• mountain 9%
• history 7%
• modeling 5%
• parameter 4%
• effect 3%

Physics & Astronomy

• strain rate 83%
• melting 74%
• crusts 56%
• domes 45%
• ascent 18%
• British Columbia 10%
• viscosity 9%
• shear 8%
• mountains 8%
• gradients 8%
• ruby 8%
• Canada 7%
• advection 7%
• ellipses 7%
• coolers 7%
• detachment 6%
• buoyancy 6%
• far fields 5%
• envelopes 5%
• histories 5%
• crystallization 4%
• solid state 4%
• cooling 4%
• heat 4%
• geometry 3%