4-D framework of continental crust / edited by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hatcher, Robert D., 1940-

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Memoir (Geological Society of America) ; 200.

Memoir / Geological Society of America ; 200

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continental crust.

Plate tectonics.

Geology, Structural.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 641 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Preface / R.D. Hatcher, Jr. [and others]

The secular evolution of plate tectonics and the continental crust: An outline / J.F. Dewey

Crustal recycling at modern subduction zones applied to the past-Issues of growth and preservation of continental basement crust, mantle geochemistry, and supercontinent reconstruction / D.W. Scholl and R. von Huene

Crustal recycling in the Appalachian foreland / W.A. Thomas and T.P. Becker

Diagnostic features and processes in the construction and evolution of Oman, Zagros, Himalayan, Karakoram and Tibetan-type orogenic belts / M.P. Searle

Continental growth and recycling by accretion of deformed turbidite fans and remnant ocean basins: examples from Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic orogens / D.R. Gray [and others]

Pure-shear dominated high-strain zones in basement terranes / C.M. Bailey, L.E. Polvi, and A.M. Forte

Scale independence of decollement thrusting / J.H. McBride, A.J.M. Pugin, and R.D. Hatcher, Jr.

The Southern Oklahoma and Dniepr-Donets aulacogens : a comparative analysis / G.R. Keller and R.A. Stephenson

Accretionary orogens in space and time / K.C. Condie

Petrotectonics, climate, crustal thickness, and evolution of geologically young orogenic belts / W.G. Ernst

Accretionary growth and crust formation in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and comparison with the Arabian-Nubian Shield / A. Kroner, [et al.].

Mid-crustal Late Cretaceous metamorphism in the Nason terrane, Cascades crystalline core, Washington, USA: implications for tectonic models / H.H. Stowell [and others]

Earth's first two billion years-The era of internally mobile crust / W.B. Hamilton

Proterozoic accretionary belts in the Amazonian Craton / U.G. Cordani and W. Teixeira

Precambrian accretionary history and Phanerozoic structures-A unified explanation for the tectonic architecture of the Nebraska region, USA / M.P. Carlson

Precambrian blocks and orogen boundaries in the north-central United States determined from gravity and magnetic data / K. Mickus

Variations in lithospheric structure across the margin of Baltica in Central Europe and the role of the Variscan and Carpathian orogenies / M. Grad [and others]

The Uppermost Allochthon in the Scandinavian Caledonides: from a Laurentian ancestry through Taconian orogeny to Scandian crustal growth on Baltica / D. Roberts, O. Nordgulen, and V. Melezhik

Gondwana-derived terranes in the northern Hellenides / F. Himmerkus, [et al.]

Variscan thrust nappes, detachments and strike-slip-faults in the French Massif Central iinterpretation of the lineations / P. Matte.

Space and time in the tectonic evolution of the northwestern Iberian Massif: implications for the comprehension of the Variscan belt / J.R. Martinez Catalan [and others]

Paleozoic ophiolites in the Variscan suture of Galicia (northwest Spain): distribution, characteristics and meaning / R. Arenas [and others]

Geochemistry of two associated ophiolites from the Cabo Ortegal Complex (Variscan Belt of NW Spain) / S. Sanchez Martinez, [et al.]

U-Pb chronometry of polymetamorphic high-pressure granulites: An example from the allochthonous terranes of the NW Iberian Variscan Belt / J. Fernandez-Suarez, [et al.]

Flexural to broken foreland basin evolution as a result of Variscan collisional events in northwestern Spain / M. Keller, [et al.]

The Notre Dame arc and the Taconic orogeny in Newfoundland / C.R. Van Staal, [et al.]

The Cat Square terrane: possible Siluro-Devonian remnant ocean basin in the Inner Piedmont, southern Appalachians, USA / A.J. Merschat and R.D. Hatcher, Jr.

Rifted-margin architecture, cover stratigraphy, and structure of basement culminations, frontal Appalachian Blue Ridge, Georgia / J.F. Tull

Tectonic map of the southern and central Appalachians:a tale of three orogens and a complete Wilson cycle / R.D. Hatcher, Jr., B.R. Bream, and A.J. Merschat.

Notes:

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0813712009

9780813712000

OCLC:

729615805

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.