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

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

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

Detrital zircon provenance of the Late Cretaceous–Eocene California forearc: Influence of Laramide low-angle subduction on sediment dispersal and paleogeography

(2014) Glenn R. Sharman et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

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

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

(2014) Koji Wakita   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

New interpretation of the Franciscan mélange at San Simeon coast, California: tectonic intrusion into an accretionary prism

(2014) Yujiro Ogawa 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

Examples of Franciscan Complex mélanges in the northernmost California Coast Ranges, a retrospective

(2014) K.R. Aalto   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

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

(2014) John P. Platt   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Designating tectonostratigraphic terranes versus mapping rock units in subduction complexes: perspectives from the Franciscan Complex of California, USA

(2014) Loren A. Raymond   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

Understanding a critical basinal link in Cretaceous Cordilleran paleogeography: Detailed provenance of the Hornbrook Formation, Oregon and California

(2013) K. D. Surpless et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

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

A reappraisal of the early slip history of the San Andreas fault, central California, USA

(2013) Glenn R. Sharman et al.   GEOLOGY

The thickness of subduction plate boundary faults from the seafloor into the seismogenic zone

(2013) Christie D. Rowe et al.   GEOLOGY

Previously unrecognized regional structure of the Coastal Belt of the Franciscan Complex, northern California, revealed by magnetic data

(2013) V.E. Langenheim et al.   Geosphere

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

Controls on forearc basin architecture from seismic and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Great Valley Group, central Sacramento Basin, California

(2013) Thomas A. Williams et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

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

(2013) Jaime D. Barnes et al.   LITHOS

Continuous exhumation of mantle-derived rocks at the Southwest Indian Ridge for 11 million years

(2013) Daniel Sauter et al.   Nature Geoscience

Implications of Franciscan Complex graywacke geochemistry for sediment transport, provenance determination, burial-exposure duration, and fluid exchange with cosubducted metabasites

(2013) Arundhuti Ghatak et al.   TECTONICS

Variety and origin of magmas on Shatsky Rise, northwest Pacific Ocean

(2012) Takashi Sano et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Eocene extension in Idaho generated massive sediment floods into the Franciscan trench and into the Tyee, Great Valley, and Green River basins

(2012) Trevor A. Dumitru et al.   GEOLOGY

Large extensional aftershocks in the continental forearc triggered by the 2010 Maule earthquake, Chile

(2012) Isabelle Ryder et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Large submarine landslides in the Japan Trench: A new scenario for additional tsunami generation

(2012) Kiichiro Kawamura et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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(2012) Alan Chapman   Geosphere

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

Coseismic fault rupture at the trench axis during the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2012) Shuichi Kodaira et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2012) Rachel Prohoroff et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonic significance of low-temperature blueschist blocks in the Franciscan mélange at San Simeon, California

(2012) Estibalitz Ukar   TECTONOPHYSICS

Relocating the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquakes (M 6.0–9.0)

(2012) Zhouchuan Huang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Kinematic analysis of mélange fabrics in the Franciscan Complex near San Simeon, California: Evidence for sinistral slip on the Nacimiento fault zone?

(2012) John S. Singleton et al.   Lithosphere

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

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

Potential tsunamigenic faults of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

(2011) Takeshi Tsuji et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Slumping and mass transport deposition in the Nankai fore arc: Evidence from IODP drilling and 3-D reflection seismic data

(2011) Michael Strasser et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Accretion of the Franciscan Complex attending Jurassic-Cretaceous geotectonic development of northern and central California

(2011) W. G. Ernst   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

Recognition of the Shimanto HP metamorphic belt within the traditional Sanbagawa HP metamorphic belt: New perspectives of the Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonics in Japan

(2011) Kazumasa Aoki et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

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

Unmetamorphosed sedimentary mélange with high-pressure metamorphic blocks in a nascent forearc basin setting

(2011) Brian Hitz et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonic mélange as fault rock of subduction plate boundary

(2011) Gaku Kimura et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Mappable features of mélanges derived from Ocean Plate Stratigraphy in the Jurassic accretionary complexes of Mino and Chichibu terranes in Southwest Japan

(2011) Koji Wakita   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

Subduction complex uplift and exhumation and its influence on Maastrichtian forearc stratigraphy in the Great Valley Basin, northern San Joaquin Valley, California

(2010) C. Mitchell et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Late Cretaceous-early Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the southern California margin inferred from provenance of trench and forearc sediments

(2010) C. E. Jacobson et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Magmatic lobes as "snapshots" of magma chamber growth and evolution in large, composite batholiths: An example from the Tuolumne intrusion, Sierra Nevada, California

(2010) V. Memeti et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

New insight into a subduction-related orogen: A reappraisal of the geotectonic framework and evolution of the Japanese Islands

(2010) Yukio Isozaki et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

(2010) Trevor A. Dumitru et al.   TECTONICS

Oceanic corrugated surfaces and the strength of the axial lithosphere at slow spreading ridges

(2009) Mathilde Cannat et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Detrital zircon evidence for progressive underthrusting in Franciscan metagraywackes, west-central California

(2009) C. A. Snow et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Lawsonite Lu-Hf geochronology: A new geochronometer for subduction zone processes

(2009) Sean R. Mulcahy et al.   GEOLOGY

U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Pacheco Pass metagraywackes: Sierran-Klamath source of mid-Cretaceous and Late Cretaceous Franciscan deposition and underplating

(2009) W. G. Ernst et al.   TECTONICS

Kinematics of Franciscan Complex exhumation: New insights from the geology of Mount Diablo, California

(2008) K. Schemmann et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The youngest blueschist belt in SW Japan: implication for the exhumation of the Cretaceous Sanbagawa high-P/T metamorphic belt

(2008) K. AOKI et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

Dynamics of accretion of arc and backarc crust to continental margins: Inferences from the Annieopsquotch accretionary tract, Newfoundland Appalachians

(2008) A. Zagorevski et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS