Deformation and exhumation at convergent margins: The Franciscan subduction complex

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 445, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-61

  Ring, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EROSION; KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; MASS TRANSFER; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; STRAIN RATE; SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY;

DEFORMATION PROCESS; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EXTENSIONAL STRAIN; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; HORIZONTAL DEFORMATION; INTERNAL ROTATIONS; KINEMATIC VORTICITY; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSION; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FOREARC BASIN; HIGH PRESSURE; JURASSIC; KINEMATICS; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; OVERBURDEN; PLATE MOTION; PRESSURE EFFECT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA;

EID: 75249088704     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2445     Document Type: Article

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