Deformation and exhumation at convergent margins : the Franciscan subduction complex / Uwe Ring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ring, Uwe.

Contributor:

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 445.

Special paper ; 445

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Structural--California, Northern.

Geology, Structural.

Convergent margins.

Subduction zones.

Plate tectonics.

Franciscan Complex (Calif.).

Plate tectonics--California, Northern.

Subduction zones--California, Northern.

Convergent margins--California, Northern.

California--Franciscan Complex.

Northern California.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 61 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2008.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

text file

Summary:

"The Franciscan subduction complex formed a long-lived accretionary wedge of Late Jurassic through Oligocene age that fringed the western edge of the North American Cordillera. This volume summarizes absolute finite-strain data from the Franciscan subduction complex and brittle strain data from important faults in and above this complex. Because the Franciscan is generally considered a prototypical sediment-rich subduction complex, its tectonic evolution is important for understanding convergent plate margins, and the results outlined in this volume may have broad implications for other subduction-zone settings."--Pub. desc.

Contents:

The Franciscan triad

an overview

Pressure-temperature evolution and evidence for solution-mass-transfer deformation

Methods of strain analysis, sampling, and data collection

Brittle strain on the coast range fault zone

Brittle strain in the Franciscan subduction complex Ductile strain and mass loss in the eastern and central franciscan belts

Role of ductile thinning of the overburden to exhumation of the high-pressure metamorphic rocks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-61).

Print version record.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Print version: Ring, Uwe. Deformation and exhumation at convergent margins.

OCLC:

989735366

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