Compressional Tectonics : Plate Convergence to Mountain Building /: Plate Convergence to Mountain Building. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ibrahim Cemen, Elizabeth J. Catlos.
• Editors: Cemen, Ibrahim; Catlos, Elizabeth J
• Contents: List of Contributors Preface Part I Plate Convergence 1. When Plates Collide Elizabeth J. Catlos and Ҫemen İbrahim 2. Subduction and Obduction Processes: The Fate of Oceanic Lithosphere Revealed by Blueschists, Eclogites and Ophiolites Philippe Agard, Mathieu Soret, Guillaume Bonnet, Dia Ninkabou, Alexis Plunder, Cécile Prigent, and Philippe Yamato 3. Lateral Heterogeneity in Compressional Mountain Belt Settings Bibek Giri and Mary Hubbard 4. A Review of the Dynamics of Subduction Zone Initiation in the Aegean Region Elizabeth J. Catlos and Ҫemen İbrahim Part II Alpine-Himalayan Collision 5. Genesis of Himalayan Stratigraphy and the Tectonic Development of the Thrust Belt Delores M. Robinson and Aaron J. Martin 6. Records of Himalayan Metamorphism and Contractional Tectonics in the Central Himalayas (Darondi Khola, Nepal) Elizabeth J. Catlos 7. Tectonics of the Southeast Anatolian Orogenic Belt Yücel Yılmaz, Erdinç Yiğitbaş, and İbrahim Çemen 8. Tectonics of Eastern Anatolian Plateau; Final Stages of Collisional Orogeny in Anatolia Yücel Yılmaz, İbrahim Çemen, and Erdinç Yiğitbas 9. When and why the Neo-Tethyan subduction initiated along the Eurasian margin: a case study from a Jurassic eclogite in southern Iran Bo Wan, Yang Chu, Ling Chen, Zhiyong Zhang, Songjian Ao, and Morteza Talebian Part III North America Mountain Building 10. Stratigraphic and Thermal Maturity Evidence for a Break-Back Thrust Sequence in the Southern Appalachian Thrust Belt, Alabama, USA Jack C. Pashin 11. Strain Partitioning in Foreland Basins: An Example from the Ouachita fold-thrust belt Arkoma Basin Transition Zone in Southeastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas Ҫemen İbrahim and Donald J. Yezerski 12. Extensional Collapse of Orogens: A Review and Example from the Southern Appalachian Orogen David A. Foster, Chong Ma, Ben D. Goscombe, and Paul A. Mueller
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: American Geophysical Union
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119773863
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