Linkages and feedbacks in orogenic systems - Hardcover

Edited By Richard D. Law, J. Ryan Thigpen, Arthur J. Merschat And Harold H. Stowell

 
9780813712130: Linkages and feedbacks in orogenic systems

Synopsis

xv, 372 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. Contents: Linkages and feedbacks in orogenic systems : an introduction / J. Ryan Thigpen, Richard D. Law, Arthur J. Merschat, and Harold H. Stowell -- Evaluating kinematic displacement rate effects on transient thermal processes in thrust belts using coupled thermomechanical finite-element models / J. Ryan Thigpen, Kyle T. Ashley, and Richard D. Law -- Techniques for understanding fold-and-thrust belt kinematics and thermal evolution / Nadine McQuarrie and Todd A. Ehlers -- Basement-cover tectonics, structural inheritance, and deformation migration in the outer parts of orogenic belts : a view from the western Alps / Robert W.H. Butler -- Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the western Blue Ridge, Southern Appalachians : a critical examination of long-standing conflicts in a polydeformed system / J. Ryan Thigpen and Robert D. Hatcher Jr. -- Strain gradients in the Day Mountain thrust sheet, Massachusetts USA : implications for deformations during thrusting and strain localization / Paul Karabinos and Elizabeth L. Pierce -- Synconvergence extension and midcrustal exhumation in the internal Dinarides / Gabriele Casale, Richard Bennett, Darrell Cowan, and Marijana Surkovic -- How (not) to recognize a midcrustal channel from outcrop patterns / Taija Torvela -- Quartz inclusions in garnet : time capsules of early mountain building / Kyle T. Ashley, Richard D. Law, Robert J. Bodnar, and Kenneth A. Eriksson -- Paleoproterozoic to Triassic coastal evolution of the Gyeonggi Massif, Korea : tectonic correlation with the North China craton / Moonsup Cho, Taehwan Kim, Soh-young Yang, and Keewook Yi -- Temporal and spatial distribution of Paleozoic metamorphism in the southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont delimited by ion microprobe U-Pb ages of metamorphic zircon / Arthur J. Merschat, Brendan R. Bream, Matthew T. Huebner, Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., and Calvin E. Miller -- Thrust loading as a mech

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