The recognition of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) minerals such as diamond and coesite in crustal rocks was a major breakthrough in Earth dynamics; it showed that subduction of the crust to >100 km depth occurs in continental-collision belts. In the Western Gneiss Region (WGR) of Norway, for example,
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William L. Griffin (2007) studied this question.
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