Deformation and exhumation at convergent margins
Subtitle: the Franciscan subduction complex
By: Uwe Ring.
Series: Special paper -- 445
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9780813724454
Subjects: Geology, Structural -- California, Northern; Franciscan Complex (Calif.); Plate tectonics -- California, Northern; Subduction zones -- California, Northern; Convergent margins -- California, Northern
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.