Tracking arc-continent collision subduction zone processes from high-pressure rocks in the southern Urals

Subduction-related high-pressure metamorphic rocks in the southern Urals co nfirm material Bus was active within the subduction zone. Suprasubduction z one ophiolitic material was tectonically eroded in an intraoceanic setting, metamorphosed under mantle conditions and exhumed. With the entrance of th e East European Craton into the subduction zone, the upper continental crus t was removed at a shallow level, whereas middle crustal material was subdu cted to mantle depths, metamorphosed under eclogite facies conditions and i nteracted,vith the mantle,wedge. Eclogite-bearing rocks were exhumed to an upper mantle level and juxtaposed against material that was tectonically er oded from the fore-are region of the upper plate.