Coupling of early Tertiary extension in the Great Valley forearc basin with blueschist exhumation in the underlying Franciscan accretionary wedge at Mount Diablo, California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1347-1367

  Unruh, Jeffrey R ^a   Dumitru, Trevor A ^b   Sawyer, Thomas L ^c  

^a William Lettis and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Piedmont Geosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Blueschist; Exhumation; Subduction; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BLUESCHIST EXHUMATION; BLUESCHIST FACIES ROCKS; FOREARC BASIN;

KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; PETROLOGY; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ANTICLINE; BASIN EVOLUTION; BLUESCHIST FACIES; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOREARC BASIN; GRABEN; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY [CALIFORNIA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38149116992     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26057.1     Document Type: Article

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