Structural context and variation of ocean plate stratigraphy, Franciscan Complex, California: insight into mélange origins and subduction-accretion processes

Assembling the world’s type shallow subduction complex: Detrital zircon geochronologic constraints on the origin of the Nacimiento block, central California Coast Ranges

(2016) Alan D. Chapman et al.   Geosphere

Four Cordilleran paleorivers that connected Sevier thrust zones in Idaho to depocenters in California, Washington, Wyoming, and, indirectly, Alaska

(2015) Trevor A. Dumitru et al.   GEOLOGY

Detrital zircon U–Pb reconnaissance of the Franciscan subduction complex in northwestern California

(2015) Trevor A. Dumitru et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Whither the megathrust? Localization of large-scale subduction slip along the contact of a mélange

(2015) John Wakabayashi et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Anatomy of a subduction complex: architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales

(2015) John Wakabayashi   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

OPS mélange: a new term for mélanges of convergent margins of the world

(2014) Koji Wakita   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

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

(2014) John P. Platt   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Dating subduction-zone metamorphism with combined garnet and lawsonite Lu-Hf geochronology

(2014) S. R. Mulcahy et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

The blueschist–eclogite transition in the Alpine chain: P–T paths and the role of slow-spreading extensional structures in the evolution of HP–LT mountain belts

(2014) A. Vitale Brovarone et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

(2013) T.M. Kusky et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Petrogenesis of serpentinites from the Franciscan Complex, western California, USA

(2013) Jaime D. Barnes et al.   LITHOS

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

First 40Ar-39Ar Ages from Low-T Mafic Blueschist Blocks in a Franciscan Mélange near San Simeon: Implications for Initiation of Subduction

(2012) Estibalitz Ukar et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Insights on deep, accretionary subduction processes from the Sistan ophiolitic “mélange” (Eastern Iran)

(2012) S. Angiboust et al.   LITHOS

Sandstone matrix olistostrome deposited on intra-subduction complex serpentinite, Franciscan Complex, western Marin County, California

(2012) Rachel Prohoroff et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Constraints on early Franciscan subduction rates from 2-D thermal modeling

(2011) Frances J. Cooper et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ophiolite genesis and global tectonics: Geochemical and tectonic fingerprinting of ancient oceanic lithosphere

(2011) Y. Dilek et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Elemental mobility in subduction metamorphism: insight from metamorphic rocks of the Franciscan Complex and the Feather River ultramafic belt, California

(2011) Arundhuti Ghatak et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Eclogitization of the Monviso ophiolite (W. Alps) and implications on subduction dynamics

(2011) S. ANGIBOUST et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Mineral parageneses, regional architecture, and tectonic evolution of Franciscan metagraywackes, Cape Mendocino-Garberville-Covelo 30′ × 60′ quadrangles, northwest California

(2011) W. G. Ernst et al.   TECTONICS

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

(2011) John Wakabayashi   TECTONOPHYSICS

Suprasubduction-zone ophiolite generation, emplacement, and initiation of subduction: A perspective from geochemistry, metamorphism, geochronology, and regional geology

(2010) J. Wakabayashi et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Early Cretaceous transition from nonaccretionary behavior to strongly accretionary behavior within the Franciscan subduction complex

(2010) Trevor A. Dumitru et al.   TECTONICS

Melt extraction and melt refertilization in mantle peridotite of the Coast Range ophiolite: an LA–ICP–MS study

(2009) Marlon M. Jean et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Supra-subduction and abyssal mantle peridotites of the Coast Range ophiolite, California

(2008) Sung Hi Choi et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Isotope geochemistry of mercury in source rocks, mineral deposits and spring deposits of the California Coast Ranges, USA

(2008) Christopher N. Smith et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS