Polygenetic mélanges: a glimpse on tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric recycling in convergent margins

Cyclical variations of fluid sources and stress state in a shallow megathrust-zone mélange

(2020) Anna Cerchiari et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The role of structural inheritance in continental break-up and exhumation of Alpine Tethyan mantle (Canavese Zone, Western Alps)

(2019) Andrea Festa et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Neo-Tethys in Central Iran: Evidence from petrology and age of the Nain-Ashin ophiolitic basalts

(2019) Tahmineh Pirnia et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Perspectives on the roles of melanges in subduction accretionary complexes: A review

(2019) Loren A. Raymond   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tectonic setting required for the preservation of sedimentary mélanges in Palaeozoic and Mesozoic accretionary complexes of southwest Japan

(2019) Koji Wakita   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Conceptual consideration and outcrop interpretation on early stage deformation of sand and mud in accretionary prisms for chaotic deposit formation

(2019) Yujiro Ogawa   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Polyphase brittle and ductile deformation of Late Jurassic ophiolitic basalt-argillite matrix mélange and stratigraphic overlap sequence, northwestern Washington State

(2019) David T. Katopody et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Middle-Late Jurassic sedimentary mélange formation related to ophiolite obduction in the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic Mountain Range

(2019) Hans-Jürgen Gawlick et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Mélanges and disrupted rocks at the leading edge of the Humber Arm Allochthon, W. Newfoundland Appalachians: Deformation under high fluid pressure

(2019) Ryan A. Lacombe et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Substrate deformation and incorporation in sedimentary mélanges (olistostromes): Examples from the northern Apennines (Italy) and northwestern Dinarides (Slovenia)

(2019) K. Ogata et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Diagnostic features and field-criteria in recognition of tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric mélanges in orogenic belts and exhumed subduction-accretion complexes

(2019) Andrea Festa et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Using 3D kinematic models in subduction channels. The case of the Chañaral tectonic mélange, Coastal Cordillera, northern Chile

(2019) Paulina Fuentes et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Sedimentary compared to tectonically-deformed serpentinites and tectonic serpentinite mélanges at outcrop to petrographic scales: Unambiguous and disputed examples from California

(2019) John Wakabayashi   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tectonic, diapiric and sedimentary chaotic rocks of the Rakhine coast, western Myanmar

(2019) G.F. Moore et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The progressive development of microfabrics from initial deposition to slump deformation: an example from a modern sedimenary mélange on the Nankai prism

(2019) Mebae Kuranaga et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Recycling of heterogeneous material in the subduction factory: evidence from the sedimentary mélange of the Internal Ligurian Units, Italy

(2019) Francesca Meneghini et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Middle Eocene giant slope failure (sedimentary mélanges) in the Ligurian accretionary wedge (NW Italy) and relationships with tectonics, global climate changes and gas hydrates dissociation

(2019) Andrea Festa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Redefinition of the Ligurian Units at the Alps–Apennines junction (NW Italy) and their role in the evolution of the Ligurian accretionary wedge: constraints from mélanges and broken formations

(2019) Edoardo Barbero et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Sedimentary and diapiric mélanges in the Skrzydlna area (Outer Carpathians of Poland) as indicators of basinal and structural evolution

(2019) Aneta Siemińska et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Blueschist from the Mariana forearc records long-lived residence of material in the subduction channel

(2019) R. Tamblyn et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Formation and evolution of a subduction-related mélange: The example of the Rocca Canavese Thrust Sheets (Western Alps)

(2019) Manuel Roda et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Large-scale Variscan shearing at the southeastern margin of the eastern Rhenohercynian belt: a reinterpretation of chaotic rock fabrics in the Harz Mountains, Germany

(2019) C.-H. Friedel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Seismic imaging of mélanges – Pieniny Klippen Belt case study

(2019) Paweł Marzec et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Fracture and Weakening of Jammed Subduction Shear Zones, Leading to the Generation of Slow Slip Events

(2019) Adam Beall et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Mélanges: 100th anniversary of the inception of the term and concept

(2019) Andrea Festa et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Cataclastic deformation and metasomatism in the subduction zone of mafic blocks-in-mélange, San Simeon, California

(2019) Estibalitz Ukar et al.   LITHOS

Geology of the Susa Shear Zone (Susa Valley, Western Alps)

(2019) Stefano Ghignone et al.   Journal of Maps

The geophysics, geology and mechanics of slow fault slip

(2018) Roland Bürgmann   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Does subduction of mass transport deposits (MTDs) control seismic behavior of shallow–level megathrusts at convergent margins?

(2018) Andrea Festa et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A giant late Precambrian chert-bearing olistostrome discovered in the Bohemian Massif: A record of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy (OPS) disrupted by mass-wasting along an outer trench slope

(2018) Jaroslava Hajná et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Mass Transport Deposits and geo-hazard assessment in the Bradano Foredeep (Southern Apennines, Ionian Sea)

(2018) Andrea Artoni et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

From soft sediment deformation to fluid assisted faulting in the shallow part of a subduction megathrust analogue: the Sestola Vidiciatico tectonic Unit (Northern Apennines, Italy)

(2017) SILVIA MITTEMPERGHER et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Role of Late Jurassic intra-oceanic structural inheritance in the Alpine tectonic evolution of the Monviso meta-ophiolite Complex (Western Alps)

(2017) GIANNI BALESTRO et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

New insights into the geodynamics of Neo-Tethys in the Makran area: Evidence from age and petrology of ophiolites from the Coloured Mélange Complex (SE Iran)

(2017) Emilio Saccani et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Franciscan Complex (California, USA) – The model case for return-flow in a subduction channel put to the test

(2017) Alexander Krohe   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Record of Jurassic mass transport processes through the orogenic cycle: Understanding chaotic rock units in the high-pressure Zermatt-Saas ophiolite (Western Alps)

(2017) Paola Tartarotti et al.   Lithosphere

Origin and significance of olistostromes in the evolution of orogenic belts: A global synthesis

(2016) Andrea Festa et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Morphometry of mass-transport deposits as a predictive tool

(2015) Lorena Moscardelli et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

River-evolution and tectonic implications of a major Pliocene aggradation on the lower Colorado River: The Bullhead Alluvium

(2015) Keith A. Howard et al.   Geosphere

Franciscan mélanges: coherent blocks in a low-density, ductile matrix

(2015) W. G. Ernst   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

The Gondola Slide: A mass transport complex controlled by margin topography (South-Western Adriatic Margin, Mediterranean Sea)

(2015) Giacomo Dalla Valle et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Late Oligocene–early Miocene olistostromes (sedimentary mélanges) as tectono-stratigraphic constraints to the geodynamic evolution of the exhumed Ligurian accretionary complex (Northern Apennines, NW Italy)

(2014) Andrea Festa et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Tectonic significance of different block-in-matrix structures in exhumed convergent plate margins: examples from oceanic and continental HP rocks in Inner Western Alps (northwest Italy)

(2014) Gianni Balestro et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Mélanges and other types of block-in-matrix formations in the Cantabrian Zone (Variscan Orogen, northwest Spain): origin and significance

(2014) Juan Luis Alonso et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Origin of Franciscan blueschist-bearing melange at San Simeon, central California coast

(2014) John P. Platt   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Mass-transport deposits, olistostromes and soft-sediment deformation in modern and ancient continental margins, and associated natural hazards

(2014) Andrea Festa et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

The carbonate mass transport deposits of the Paleogene Friuli Basin (Italy/Slovenia): Internal anatomy and inferred genetic processes

(2014) K. Ogata et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Structural anatomy of the Ligurian accretionary wedge (Monferrato, NW Italy), and evolution of superposed melanges

(2013) A. Festa et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The origin of mélanges: Cautionary tales from Indonesia

(2013) A.J. Barber   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Stress switching in subduction forearcs: Implications for overpressure containment and strength cycling on megathrusts

(2013) Richard H. Sibson   TECTONOPHYSICS

Seismic rupture during the 1960 Great Chile and the 2010 Maule earthquakes limited by a giant Pleistocene submarine slope failure

(2013) Jacob Geersen et al.   TERRA NOVA

Oblique subduction modelling indicates along-trench tectonic transport of sediments

(2013) Cristina Malatesta et al.   Nature Communications

Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian Franciscan-type mélanges in the Teplá–Barrandian unit, Bohemian Massif: Evidence of modern-style accretionary processes along the Cadomian active margin of Gondwana?

(2012) Jaroslava Hajná et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Chaos and geodynamics: Mélanges, mélange-forming processes and their significance in the geological record

(2012) Yildirim Dilek et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

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

(2012) A. Festa et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Frequency-size distribution of competent lenses in a block-in-matrix mélange: Imposed length scales of brittle deformation?

(2011) Å. Fagereng   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Progressive development of block-in-matrix fabric in a shale-dominated shear zone: Insights from the Bobbio Tectonic Window (Northern Apennines, Italy)

(2011) Kei Ogata et al.   TECTONICS

Subducted sedimentary serpentinite mélanges: Record of multiple burial–exhumation cycles and subduction erosion

(2011) John Wakabayashi   TECTONOPHYSICS

Mass transport-related stratal disruption within sedimentary mélanges: Examples from the northern Apennines (Italy) and south-central Pyrenees (Spain)

(2011) Kei Ogata et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Fabric-based criteria to distinguish tectonic from sedimentary mélanges in the Shimanto accretionary complex, Yakushima Island, SW Japan

(2011) Yuzuru Yamamoto et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

“Order from chaos”: A field-based estimate on bulk rheology of tectonic mélanges formed in subduction zones

(2011) Susanne Grigull et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the frontal part of an ancient subduction complex at the transition from accretion to erosion: The case of the Ligurian wedge of the northern Apennines, Italy

(2010) F. Remitti et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Mélange rheology and seismic style

(2010) Åke Fagereng et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2010) Andrea Festa et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Myths and recent progress regarding the Argille Scagliose, Northern Apennines, Italy

(2010) Paola Vannucchi et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

The processes of underthrusting and underplating in the geologic record: structural diversity between the Franciscan Complex (California), the Kodiak Complex (Alaska) and the Internal Ligurian Units (Italy)

(2009) F. Meneghini et al.   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

“Block-in-matrix” fabrics that lack shearing but possess composite cleavage planes: A sedimentary mélange origin for the Yuwan accretionary complex in the Ryukyu island arc, Japan

(2009) Soichi Osozawa et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Basin-wide mass-wasting complexes as markers of the Oligo-Miocene foredeep-accretionary wedge evolution in the Northern Apennines, Italy

(2008) Claudio Corrado Lucente et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Giant submarine collapse of a carbonate platform at the Turonian-Coniacian transition: The Ayabacas Formation, southern Peru

(2008) Pierre Callot et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Mud volcanoes, olistostromes and Argille scagliose in the Mediterranean region

(2008) ANGELO CAMERLENGHI et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Extensional tectonics and gravitational collapse in an Ordovician passive margin: The Western Argentine Precordillera

(2007) J.L. Alonso et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH