Thermo-rheological, shear heating model for leucogranite generation, metamorphism, and deformation during the ProterozoiTrans-Hudson orogeny, Black Hills, South Dakota

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• leucogranite 58%
• orogeny 47%
• metamorphism 40%
• crust 34%
• heating 32%
• granite 32%
• staurolite 26%
• regional metamorphism 24%
• Proterozoic 23%
• anatexis 12%
• heat production 12%
• crustal thickening 12%
• melting 11%
• denudation 11%
• upper crust 10%
• erosion 10%
• schist 10%
• shear zone 9%
• Archean 9%
• source rock 9%
• garnet 9%
• sedimentary rock 9%
• isotopic composition 8%
• rock 7%
• plate convergence 6%
• province 6%
• metapelite 6%
• metasedimentary rock 5%
• country rock 5%
• pegmatite 5%
• decompression 5%
• rheology 5%

Physics & Astronomy

• Black Hills (SD-WY) 100%
• crusts 57%
• granite 45%
• shear 31%
• heating 28%
• rocks 28%
• basements 17%
• schist 15%
• sedimentary rocks 13%
• erosion 12%
• melting 9%
• garnets 9%
• intrusion 5%
• heat 5%
• pressure reduction 5%
• causes 5%