Mélanges of the Franciscan Complex, California: Diverse structural settings, evidence for sedimentary mixing, and their connection to subduction processes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 480, Issue , 2011, Pages 117-141

  Wakabayashi, John ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSION REACTIONS; MAGNESITE; MIXING; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTATION; SHALE; TECTONICS; TEXTURES;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; FRANCISCAN COMPLEX; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; PREFERENTIAL LOCALIZATION; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SEDIMENTARY TEXTURES; STRUCTURAL SETTING; SUBDUCTION PROCESS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BLUESCHIST FACIES; BRECCIA; DISPLACEMENT; MELANGE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SONOMA COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856516764     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2480(05)     Document Type: Article

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