Plate reconstructions for the Cenozoic document relatively steady right-oblique subduction
of the Farallon (Nazca) plate beneath the Chilean continental margin. The kinematic …

During the latest Cretaceous-early Paleogene Laramide orogeny, the lithosphere beneath
the southernmost Sierra Nevada batholith and the adjacent Mojave Desert region batholith …

The apparent paradox of voluminous granitoid emplacement in an overall compressional
magmatic are has been somewhat alleviated by the idea of pluton emplacement in tension …

The improved resolution of sediment provenance from detrital zircon analysis of Great Valley
stratigraphy enables recognition of previously undocumented arc magmatism and the …

The Liquiñe–Ofquifault zone (LOFZ) cuts the Patagonian batholith and the modern volcanic
arc of southern Chile for ca 1000km. The rock fabric along three transects of the LOFZ …

Most continental magmatic arcs occur in obliquely convergent settings and display strike-slip
movement within, or adjacent to, the magmatic arc, and contractional structures in the …

Major episodes of Mesozoic plutonism in California correlate with periods of oblique
subduction and trench-parallel transport of western California along intrabatholithic faults …

Abstract The north-central Canadian Cordillera is characterized by networks of structures of
Cretaceous and Cenozoic ages that formed as a consequence of variably oblique dextral …

This paper presents a new synthesis of Franciscan Complex tectonics, with the emphasis on
the pre-San Andreas fault history of these rocks. Field relations suggest that the Franciscan …

Mesozoic rocks of the Baja California Peninsula form one of the most areally extensive, best-
exposed, longest-lived (160 my), least-tectonized and least-metamorphosed convergent …