Exhumation associated with continental strike-slip fault systems / edited by Alison B. Till ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Till, Alison B.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 434.

Special paper ; 434

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strike-slip faults (Geology).

Plate tectonics.

Continental margins.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages : illustrations (partly color), maps (partly color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : The Geological Society of America, 2007.

Contents:

Locating the deep extent of the plate boundary along the Alpine fault zone, New Zealand: implications for patterns of exhumation in the Southern Alps / Kevin P. Furlong

Patterns of bedrock uplift along the San Andreas fault and implications for mechanisms of transpression / James A. Spotila ... [et al.]

Yo-yo tectonics in a wrench zone, central Anatolian fault zone, Turkey / Paul J. Umhoefer ... [et al.]

Geometry and timing of strike-slip and normal faults in the northern Walker Lane, northwestern Nevada and northeastern California: strain partitioning or sequential extension and strike-slip deformation? / Christopher D. Henry, James E. Faulds, and Craig M. dePolo

Tectonism of the southern Silver Peak range: paleomagnetic and geochronologic data bearing on the Neogene development of a regional extensional complex, central Walker Lane, Nevada / Michael S. Petronis ... [et al.]

Multiple constraints on divergent strike-slip deformation along the eastern margin of the Sierran microplate, SE California / Jonathan C. Lewis ... [et al.]

Large laramide dextral offset across Owens Valley, California, and its possible relation to tectonic unroofing of the southern Sierra Nevada / John M. Bartley ... [et al.]

Exhumation and deformation processes in transpressional orogens: the Venezuelan Paria Península, SE Caribbean-South American plate boundary / Leonardo Cruz ... [et al.]

Oblique collision between North and South China recorded in Zhangbaling and Fucha Shan (Dabie-Sulu transfer zone) / Qing Zhang ... [et al.]

Kinematics and timing of exhumation of metamorphic core complexes along the Lewis and Clark fault zone, northern Rocky Mountains, USA / David A. Foster ... [et al.]

Early tertiary transtension-related deformation and magmatism along the Tintina fault system, Alaska / Alison B. Till ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813724341

9780813724348

OCLC:

164570723