Linkages and feedbacks in orogenic systems

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 mechanism for crustal recycling : an example from the Swakane Gneiss, Cascades, crystalline core, Washington USA / Matthew Gatewood and Harold H. Stowell -- Transition from B- to A- type subduction during the closing of the Rheic remnant ocean : new geochronologic and geochemical data marking Acadian-Neoacadian orogenisis and accretion of the Carolina superterrane, southern Appalachians / Matthew T. Huebner and Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. -- Geologic and kinematic insights from far-traveled horses in the Brevard fault zone, southern Appalachians / Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., Matthew T. Huebner, Justin R. Rehrer, Louis L. Acker, Paul D. Follegar, Angang Liu, and Patricia Lee Goad -- Late Carboniferous thin-skinned compressional deformation above the SW edge of the East European craton as revealed by reflection seismic and potential field data : correlations with the Variscides and the Appalachians / Piotr Krzywiec, Stanisław Mazur, Łukasz Ga̦gała, Mateusz Kufrasa, Marek Lewandowski, Michał Malinowski, and Vinton Buffenmyer.This Memoir explores linkages between tectonic processes through a series of field-, numerical- and laboratory-based studies, concentrating on feedback mechanisms within ancient and evolving orogens by which individual or linked tectonic processes may influence or predetermine the operation of other processes in space and time. Case studies cover a wide range of ancient to modern orogens: the Svecofennian of southern Finland, the Gyeonggi Massif of Korea, the Caledonides of northern Scotland, the Variscan of the East European craton, the Appalachians of the eastern United States, the European Alps and Dinarides, north Cascades of the northwestern United States, and the Himalaya. Emphasis is placed on integration between data sets developed from a wide range of analytical approaches, including: field mapping, seismic reflection profiling, strain analyses, petrology, isotopic dating, and numerical modeling based studies of thermal evoluti.