Tectonic contact between the Franciscan Mélange and the Great Valley Sequence-Crustal expression of a Late Mesozoic Benioff Zone

Ernst. (1970). Tectonic contact between the Franciscan Mélange and the Great Valley Sequence-Crustal expression of a Late Mesozoic Benioff Zone.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1970

DOI

10.1029/jb075i005p00886

Link

https://doi.org/10.1029/jb075i005p00886

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Metamorphism
  • The Franciscan Complex of coastal California is the classic case: its blueschist and eclogite blocks plot in the high-P/low-T corner of P-T space, a regime reachable only by dragging cool oceanic material rapidly down a subduction zone, faster than it can heat up, then returning it near the surface

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