Tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts within the North American Cordillera orogenic system

WA Yonkee, AB Weil - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8 billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

TM Kusky, BF Windley, I Safonova, K Wakita… - Gondwana …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Ocean plate stratigraphy (OPS) is a term used to describe the sequence of sedimentary and
volcanic rocks deposited on oceanic crust substratum from the time it forms at a spreading …

Subduction zone infancy: examples from the Eocene Izu-Bonin-Mariana and Jurassic California arcs

RJ Stern, SH Bloomer - Geological Society of America …, 1992‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A new model for the earliest stages in the evolution of subduction zones is developed from
recent geologic studies of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana (IBM) arc system and then applied to Late …

Birth, death, and resurrection: The life cycle of suprasubduction zone ophiolites

JW Shervais - Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Suprasubduction zone (SSZ) ophiolites display a consistent sequence of events during their
formation and evolution that suggests that they form in response to processes that are …

Anatomy of a subduction complex: Architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales

J Wakabayashi - International Geology Review, 2015‏ - Taylor & Francis
The Franciscan Complex of California records over 150 million years of continuous E-
dip** subduction that terminated with conversion to a dextral transform plate boundary …

[HTML][HTML] The petrogenesis of modern and ophiolitic lavas reconsidered: Ti-V and Nb-Th

JW Shervais - Geoscience Frontiers, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Tectonic discrimination diagrams are a key tool for understanding ancient volcanic rock
origins. In this contribution we compile over 15,000 whole rock compositions to re-evaluate …

Eyre Creek mélange: An accretionary prism shear-zone mélange in Caples terrane rocks, Eyre Creek, northern Southland, New Zealand

KS Pound, RJ Norris, CA Landis - New Zealand Journal of Geology …, 2014‏ - Taylor & Francis
The Eyre Creek Mélange, a north–northwest trending 0.5–1 km-wide zone within Caples
Terrane rocks in northern Southland, New Zealand, is composed of phyllonite and mylonitic …

What constitutes 'emplacement'of an ophiolite?: Mechanisms and relationship to subduction initiation and formation of metamorphic soles

J Wakabayashi, Y Dilek - 2003‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Ophiolites have long been recognized as on-land fragments of fossil oceanic lithosphere,
which becomes an ophiolite when incorporated into continental margins through a complex …

Plate tectonics and island arcs

WB Hamilton - 1990‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The complex characteristics and histories of island arcs are exemplified by the arcs of
Indonesia and surrounding regions. The active tectonism and magmatism there record the …

Supra-subduction and abyssal mantle peridotites of the Coast Range ophiolite, California

SH Choi, JW Shervais, SB Mukasa - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2008‏ - Springer
Abstract The Coast Range ophiolite (CRO) of California is one of the most extensive tracts of
oceanic crust preserved in the North American Cordillera, but its origin has long remained …