Strike-slip tectonics and granite petrogenesis

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dc.contributor.authorHutton, D.H.W.en
dc.contributor.authorReavy, R. John
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dc.date.available2023-06-21T09:29:19Zen
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dc.date.issued1992-10
dc.date.updated2023-06-21T08:29:20Zen
dc.description.abstractTranspression is a process that thickens the crust and therefore in obliquely convergent orogens as in normally convergent orogens there is the potential to generate granitic melts. Individual transcurrent shear zones may not only control the ascent paths, siting, and emplacement mechanisms of plutons, but they may also cause the genesis of the granitoids themselves. Two contrasting situations are examined. In the Hercynian shear zones of Iberia, thickening together with hydrous fluxing along shear zones created intracrustal wet melting of fertile Gondwanan sediments to produce syntectonic granites. In the northern part of the British Caledonides, the association of compositionally expanded granitoids with a major mantle component and transcurrent shear zones may be explained by melting of continental crust at the lower limits of crustal transpressional faults detaching into the Moho.
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationHutton, D. H. W. and Reavy, R. J.(1992) 'Strike-slip tectonics and granite petrogenesis', Tectonics, 11(5), pp. 960-967. doi: 10.1029/92TC00336
dc.identifier.doi10.1029/92TC00336
dc.identifier.eissn1944-9194
dc.identifier.endpage967
dc.identifier.issued5
dc.identifier.journaltitleTectonics
dc.identifier.startpage960
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14682
dc.identifier.volume11
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Union
dc.rights© 1992, American Geophysical Union.
dc.subjectHercynian shear zones of Iberia
dc.subjectSyntectonic granites
dc.subjectBritish Caledonides
dc.subjectGranitic melts
dc.titleStrike-slip tectonics and granite petrogenesis
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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