Magmatism during continental collision, subduction, exhumation and mountain collapse in collisional orogenic belts and continental net growth: A perspective

Science China Earth Sciences - Tập 58 Số 8 - Trang 1284-1304 - 2015
Shuguang Song1, Mengjue Wang1, Cao Wang1, Yaoling Niu2
1MOE Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belt and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
2Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

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