Orogenic curvature : integrating paleomagnetic and structural analyses / edited by Aviva J. Sussman, Arlo B. Weil.

Other author Sussman, Aviva J., 1969-
Other author Weil, Arlo B., 1971-
Format Book
Publication InfoBoulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2004.
Descriptionvii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSpecial paper ; 383
Special papers (Geological Society of America) 383. ^A20279
Contents Classifying curved orogens based on timing relationships between structural development and vertical-axis rotations / Arlo B. Weil and Aviva J. Sussman -- Post-Miocene shortening pictured by magnetic fabric across the Zagros-Makran syntaxis (Iran) / C. Aubourg ... [et al.] -- Formation of arcuate orogenic belts in the western Mediterranean region / Gideon Rosenbaum and Gordon S. Lister -- Map-view models for correcting and calculating shortening estimates in rotated thrust fronts using paleomagnetic data / E.L. Pueyo ... [et al.] -- Oroclinal bending versus regional significant clockwise rotations in the Himalayan arc-- constraints from secondary pyrrhotite remanences / E. Schill ... [et al.] -- Preliminary kinematic data from a salient-recess pair along the Moine thrust, northwest Scotland / Matthew Strine and Gautam Mitra -- Pennsylvania salient of the Appalachians : a two-stage model for Alleghanian motion based on new compilations of Piedmont data / Donald U. Wise and Mathew L. Werner -- Orocline triggered lithospheric delamination / Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Javier Fernández-Suárez, and Arlo B. Weil -- Origin of the Bering Sea salient / Jeffrey M. Amato, Jaime Toro, and Thomas E. Moore -- Change of the maximum principal stress during the Laramide orogeny in the Monterrey salient, northeast México / Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, Tomás Cossío-Torres, and Rolando Heberto Peterson-Rodríguez -- Kinematic model for the southern Alaska orocline based on regional fault patterns / Jonathan M.G. Glen -- Lewis and Clark line and the rotational origin of the Alberta and Helena salients, North American Cordillera / James W. Sears and Marc S. Hendrix -- Paleomagnetism of the Eocene Flat Creek pluton, Yukon : tectonics of the intermontane terranes and Mackenzie Mountains / D.T.A. Symons ... [et al.] -- Strain distribution, strain history, and kinematic evolution associated with the formation of arcuate salients in fold-thrust belts : the example of the Provo salient, Sevier orogen, Utah / Sanghoon Kwon and Gautam Mitra -- New Caledonia-D'Entrecasteaux orocline and its role in clockwise rotation of the Vanuatu-New Hebrides Arc and formation of the North Fiji Basin / Stephen T. Johnston -- Tectonic models for the formation of arc-shaped convergent zones and backarc basins / W.P. Schellart and G.S. Lister.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004053332
ISBN0813723833 (pbk.)

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