School of Earth Sciences

Seminar Series

Dr Stacia Gordon
University of Nevada-Reno
Rates, Conditions, and Scales of Mass Transfer From the
Mantle to the Crust: Insights from Earths Youngest UHP

The School of Earth Sciences is pleased to invite you to a Lecture in the SES Seminar Series
given by Dr Stacia Gordon entitled Rates, Conditions, and Scales of Mass Transfer From the
Mantle to the Crust: Insights from Earths Youngest UHP Terrane.

Ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) terranes record the subduction of crustal material to mantle depths as well as the relatively
rare exhumation and return of this material to the surface. The rates, scales, and conditions under which these
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rapidly moving plate tectonic system that includes active extension partly due to continental rifting; and 2) of all the
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melt emplacement relative to the UHP metamorphism and 3) the complete exhumation and deformational history of
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exhumation of subducted crustal material from mantle to crustal depths within ~ 3 myr within an active continental rift.
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rheologic and chemical changes that occur as a result of plate tectonic processes and is particularly interested
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conditions, the role of partial melting on the rheology of the lithosphere, the driving forces behind rapid (plate-tectonic)
rates of exhumation of the deep crust, and the interactions of deformation and metamorphism.

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T,0( 4:00 - 4:45pm Thursday 9th March 2017

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