Deformation and exhumation at convergent margins; the Franciscan subduction complex.

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Deformation and exhumation at convergent margins; the Franciscan subduction complex.

Ring, Uwe.

Geological Society of America

2008

61 pages

$40.00

Paperback

Special paper; 445

QE627

Ring (geological sciences, Canterbury U., New Zealand) and Mark Brandon (Yale U.) began investigating the complex in 1993, started this report in the late 1990s, and first submitted it in 2001. The conclusions they reach about how the subduction complex may have evolved tectonically proved too controversial to publish until now. Among the topics are pressure-temperature evolution and evidence for solution-mass-transfer deformation, brittle strain on the Coast Range fault zone, and the role of ductille thinning of the overburden to exhumation of the high-pressure metamorphic rocks. There is no index.

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