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 …

Geological constraints on the mechanisms of slow earthquakes

JD Kirkpatrick, Å Fagereng, DR Shelly - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The recognition of slow earthquakes in geodetic and seismological data has transformed the
understanding of how plate motions are accommodated at major plate boundaries. Slow …

Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts

A Festa, GA Pini, Y Dilek… - International Geology …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Mélanges represent a significant component of collisional and accretionary orogenic belts
and occur widely around the world. Since its first introduction and use, the term has evolved …

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-
dipping subduction that terminated with conversion to a dextral transform plate boundary …

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 …

Mechanisms and processes of stratal disruption and mixing in the development of mélanges and broken formations: Redefining and classifying mélanges

A Festa, Y Dilek, GA Pini, G Codegone, K Ogata - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
The terms mélange and broken formation have been used in different ways in the literature.
The lack of agreement on their definition often leads to confusion and misinterpretations. An …

The Caribbean-Colombian Cretaceous igneous province: The internal anatomy of an oceanic plateau

AC Kerr, J Tarney, GF Marriner, A Nivia… - Geophysical …, 1997 - books.google.com
Oceanic large igneous provinces such as the Ontong Java Plateau, the Nauru Basin,
Manihiki Plateau, and the Kerguelen Plateau, with 10-40 km thick crustal sections [eg, Coffin …

Recognizing OIB and MORB in accretionary complexes: A new approach based on ocean plate stratigraphy, petrology and geochemistry

I Safonova, S Maruyama, S Kojima, T Komiya… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a new approach for recognizing the origin of accreted basaltic rocks based on
ocean plate stratigraphy (OPS), and on the petrology and geochemistry of basalts from mid …

The late Archean Schreiber–Hemlo and White River–Dayohessarah greenstone belts, Superior Province: collages of oceanic plateaus, oceanic arcs, and subduction …

A Polat, R Kerrich, DA Wyman - Tectonophysics, 1998 - Elsevier
The late Archean (ca. 2.80–2.68 Ga) Schreiber–Hemlo and White River–Dayohessarah
greenstone belts of the Superior Province, Canada, are supracrustal lithotectonic …

[HTML][HTML] Kinematic analysis of mélange fabrics: examples and applications from the McHugh Complex, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

TM Kusky, DC Bradley - Journal of Structural Geology, 1999 - Elsevier
Permian to Cretaceous mélange of the McHugh Complex on the Kenai Peninsula, south-
central Alaska includes blocks and belts of graywacke, argillite, limestone, chert, basalt …