Compressional Tectonics (eBook)

Elizabeth J. Catlos, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Ibrahim Çemen, The University of Alabama, USA

List of Contributors vii

Preface ix

Part I Plate Convergence

1 When Plates Collide 3
Elizabeth J Catlos and Ibrahim Çemen

2 Subduction and Obduction Processes: The Fate of Oceanic Lithosphere Revealed by Blueschists, Eclogites, and Ophiolites 21
Philippe Agard, Mathieu Soret, Guillaume Bonnet, Dia Ninkabou, Alexis Plunder, Cécile Prigent, and Philippe Yamato

3 Lateral Heterogeneity in Compressional Mountain Belt Settings 47
Bibek Giri and Mary Hubbard

4 A Review of the Dynamics of Subduction Zone Initiation in the Aegean Region 87
Elizabeth J Catlos and Ibrahim Çemen

Part II Alpine-Himalayan Collision

5 Genesis of Himalayan Stratigraphy and the Tectonic Development of the Thrust Belt 121
Delores M Robinson and Aaron J Martin

6 Records of Himalayan Metamorphism and Contractional Tectonics in the Central Himalayas (Darondi Khola, Nepal) 155
Elizabeth J Catlos

7 Tectonics of the Southeast Anatolian Orogenic Belt 203
Yücel Yilmaz, Erdinç Yigitbas, and Ibrahim Çemen

8 Tectonics of Eastern Anatolian Plateau: Final Stages of Collisional Orogeny in Anatolia 223
Yücel Yilmaz, Ibrahim Çemen, and Erdinç Yigitbas

9 When and Why the NeoTethyan Subduction Initiated Along the Eurasian Margin: A Case Study From a Jurassic Eclogite in Southern Iran 245
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 263
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 281
Ibrahim Çemen and Donald J Yezerski

12 Extensional Collapse of Orogens: A Review and Example From the Southern Appalachian Orogen 301
David A Foster, Chong Ma, Ben D Goscombe, and Paul A Mueller

Index 321