Abstract How the ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) terranes are exhumed to shallow levels but preserving intact relics of the UHP phase assemblages is among the most interesting but challenging topics in geosciences. We investigate all the paleolatitudes where the UHP terranes were exhumed. Our results show that all the UHP terranes in continental collision zones or oceanic accretionary wedges were exhumed within low latitudes (0°–30°), and the average paleolatitude for exhumations of the investigated 43 UHP terranes is ˜5.1° N. In contrast, those UHP xenoliths in mantle-derived igneous rocks could be brought to surface at higher paleolatitudes. Furthermore, the pattern of frequency for the UHP terranes exhumed at convergent boundaries is consistent with that of interglacial stages throughout the Earth history, indicating that the UHP exhumation is controlled by the climate and thus suggesting that the exhumed UHP terranes may be useful paleoclimate indicators.

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超高压地体的挖掘仅限于低纬度地区吗？

摘要 如何将超高压 (UHP) 地体挖掘到浅层但保留超高压相组合的完整遗迹是地球科学中最有趣但最具挑战性的课题之一。我们调查了挖掘 UHP 地体的所有古纬度。我们的结果表明，大陆碰撞带或海洋增生楔中的所有 UHP 地体都在低纬度（0°–30°）内被挖掘出来，并且所调查的 43 个 UHP 地体的平均古纬度为 ~5.1° N。相比之下，来自地幔的火成岩中的那些超高压捕虏体可以在较高的古纬度地区浮出水面。此外，在会聚边界挖掘出的超高压地体的频率模式与整个地球历史上的间冰期阶段一致，