Orogenic curvature : integrating paleomagnetic and structural analyses / edited by Aviva J. Sussman and Arlo B. Weil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sussman, Aviva J., 1969-

Weil, Arlo B., 1971-

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 383.

Special paper ; 383

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orogeny.

Orogenic belts.

Paleomagnetism.

Geology, Structural.

Physical Description:

vii, 271 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2004.

Contents:

Classifying curved orogens based on timing relationships between structural development and vertical-axis rotations / Arlo B. Weil and Aviva J. Sussman

Post-Miocene shortening pictured by magnetic fabric across the Zagros-Makran syntaxis (Iran) / C. Aubourg ... [et al.]

Formation of arcuate orogenic belts in the western Mediterranean region / Gideon Rosenbaum and Gordon S. Lister

Map-view models for correcting and calculating shortening estimates in rotated thrust fronts using paleomagnetic data / E. L. Pueyo ... [et al.]

Oroclinal bending versus regional significant clockwise rotations in the Himalayan arc

constraints from secondary pyrrhotite remanences / E. Schill ... [et al.]

Preliminary kinematic data from a salient-recess pair along the Moine thrust, northwest Scotland / Matthew Strine and Gautam Mitra

Pennsylvania salient of the Appalachians: a two-stage model for Alleghanian motion based on new compilations of Piedmont data / Donald U. Wise and Mathew L. Werner

Orocline triggered lithospheric delamination / Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Javier Fernández-Suárez, and Arlo B. Weil

Origin of the Bering Sea salient / Jeffrey M. Amato, Jaime Toro, and Thomas E. Moore

Change of the maximum principal stress during the Laramide orogeny in the Monterrey salient, northeast México / Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, Tomás Cossío-Torres, and Rolando Heberto Peterson-Rodríguez

A kinematic model for the southern Alaska orocline based on regional fault patterns / Jonathan M. G. Glen

Lewis and Clark line and the rotational origin of the Alberta and Helena salients, North American Cordillera / James W. Sears and Marc S. Hendrix

Paleomagnetism of the Eocene Flat Creek pluton, Yukon: tectonics of the intermontane terranes and Mackenzie Mountains / D. T. A. Symons ... [et al.]

Strain distribution, strain history, and kinematic evolution associated with the formation of arcuate salients in fold-thrust belts: the example of the Provo salient, Sevier orogen, Utah / Sanghoon Kwon and Gautam Mitra

The New Caledonia-D'Entrecasteaux orocline and its role in clockwise rotation of the Vanuatu-New Hebrides Arc and formation of the North Fiji Basin / Stephen T. Johnston

Tectonic models for the formation of arc-shaped convergent zones and backarc basins / W. P. Schellart and G. S. Lister.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813723833

OCLC:

55886444