Growth and Destruction: Continental Evolution at Subduction Zones - Open University Course Team

This book investigates the processes that generate and modify the Earth's continental crust at subduction zones. Whereas divergent plate boundaries involve the generation of oceanic lithosphere and the splitting of continental lithosphere, it is at convergent boundaries where much of the tectonic, metamorphic and igneous turmoil that leaves its imprint on the geology of continents, is active.This book covers Observations, Magma Generation in Subduction Zones, Evolution of Magmas at Subduction Zones, Sediment Recycling, Terrance Accretion at Arc Margins, and Crustal Growth and Thickening at Arc Margins.