Slab breakoff： a causal mechanism or pure convenience？  

作　　者：Yaoling Niu 

机构地区：[1]Department of Earth Sciences,Durham University [2]Institute of Oceanology,Chinese Academy of Sciences [3]Laboratory for Marine Geology,Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology

出　　处：《Science Bulletin》2017年第7期456-461,共6页科学通报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(41130314,41630968);Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y42217101L);Grants from Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(2015ASKJ03);the NSFC-Shandong Joint Fund for Marine Science Research Centers(U1606401)

摘　　要：The idea of lithosphere delamination has long been conceived as a mechanism to cause tectonic uplift,metamorphism and magmatism in active orogenic belts[1–3].Since the publication of the two seminal papers by Davies and von Blanckenburg[4,5],the idea of slab breakoff has been more widely accepted over the last$20 years as the favored mechanism to cause collision zone mag-The idea of lithosphere delamination has long been conceived as a mechanism to cause tectonic uplift, metamorphism and magmatism in active orogenic belts [1-3]. Since the publication of the two seminal papers by Davies and yon Blanckenburg [4,5], the idea of slab breakoff has been more widely accepted over the last ～20 years as the favored mechanism to cause collision zone magmatism and exhumation of subduction-zone metamorphosed rocks.

关 键 词：Slab breakoff:a causal mechanism or pure convenience 

分 类 号：P542[天文地球—构造地质学]