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

Old continental zircons from a young oceanic arc, eastern Taiwan: Implications for Luzon subduction initiation and Asian accretionary orogeny

(2015) Wen-Yu Shao et al.   GEOLOGY

Sandstone-matrix mélanges, architectural subdivision, and geologic history of accretionary complexes: A sedimentological and structural perspective from the Franciscan Complex of Sonoma and Marin counties, California, USA

(2015) Loren A. Raymond et al.   Geosphere

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

(2015) Trevor A. Dumitru 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

Franciscan geologic history constrained by tectonic/olistostromal high-grade metamafic blocks in the iconic California Mesozoic-Cenozoic accretionary complex

(2014) W. G. Ernst   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Low-temperature blueschist-facies mafic blocks in the Franciscan mélange, San Simeon, California: Field relations, petrology, and counterclockwiseP-Tpaths

(2014) Estibalitz Ukar et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

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

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

Development of arc–continent collision mélanges: Linking onshore geological and offshore geophysical observations of the Pliocene Lichi Mélange, southern Taiwan and northern Luzon arc, western Pacific

(2014) Wu-Cheng Chi et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

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

Subduction of a fossil slow–ultraslow spreading ocean: a petrology-constrained geodynamic model based on the Voltri Massif, Ligurian Alps, Northwest Italy

(2012) Giovanni B. Piccardo   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

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

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

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

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

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