17th Conference Proceedings
Table of Contents



1. The secular evolution of plate tectonics and the continental crust: An outline
J.F. Dewey
1
2. Crustal recycling at modern subduction zones applied to the past—Issues of growth and preservation of continental basement crust, mantle geochemistry, and supercontinent reconstruction
D.W. Scholl and R. von Huene
9
3. Crustal recycling in the Appalachian foreland
W.A. Thomas and T.P. Becker
33
4. Diagnostic features and processes in the construction and evolution of Oman-, Zagros-, Himalayan-, Karakoram-, and Tibetan-type orogenic belts
M.P. Searle
41
5. Continental growth and recycling by accretion of deformed turbidite fans and remnant ocean basins: Examples from Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic
D.R. Gray, D.A. Foster, R. Maas, C.V. Spaggiari, R.T. Gregory, B. Goscombe, and K.H. Hoffmann
63
6. Pure shear dominated high-strain zones in basement terranes
C.M. Bailey, L.E. Polvi, and A.M. Forte
93
7. Scale independence of décollement thrusting
J.H. McBride, A.J.M. Pugin, and R.D. Hatcher Jr.
109
8. The Southern Oklahoma and Dniepr-Donets aulacogens: A comparative analysis
G.R. Keller and R.A. Stephenson
127
9. Accretionary orogens in space and time
K.C. Condie
145
10. Petrotectonics, climate, crustal thickness, and evolution of geologically young orogenic belts
W.G. Ernst
159
11. Accretionary growth and crust formation in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and comparison with the Arabian-Nubian Shield
A. Kröner, B.F. Windley, G. Badarch, O. Tomurtogoo, E. Hegner, B.M. Jahn, S. Gruschka,E.V. Khain, A. Demoux, and M.T.D. Wingate
181
12. Mid-crustal Late Cretaceous metamorphism in the Nason terrane, Cascades crystalline core, Washington, USA: Implications for tectonic models
H.H. Stowell, G.R. Bulman, C.A. Zuluaga, D.K. Tinkham, R.B. Miller, and E. Stein
211
13. Earth’s first two billion years—The era of internally mobile crust
W.B. Hamilton
233
14. Proterozoic accretionary belts in the Amazonian Craton
U.G. Cordani and W. Teixeira
297
15. Precambrian accretionary history and Phanerozoic structures—A unified explanation for the tectonic architecture of the Nebraska region, USA
M.P. Carlson
321
16. Precambrian blocks and orogen boundaries in the north-central United States determined from gravity and magnetic data
K. Mickus
327
17. Variations in lithospheric structure across the margin of Baltica in Central Europe and the role of the Variscan and Carpathian orogenies
M. Grad, A. Guterch, G.R. Keller, and POLONAISE’97 and CELEBRATION 2000 Working Groups
341
18. The Uppermost Allochthon in the Scandinavian Caledonides: From a Laurentian ancestry through Taconian orogeny to Scandian crustal growth on Baltica
D. Roberts, Ø. Nordgulen, and V. Melezhik
357
19. Gondwana-derived terranes in the northern Hellenides
F. Himmerkus, B. Anders, T. Reischmann, and D. Kostopoulos
379
20. Variscan thrust nappes, detachments, and strike-slip faults in the French Massif Central: Interpretation of the lineations
P. Matte
391
21. Space and time in the tectonic evolution of the northwestern Iberian Massif: Implications for the comprehension of the Variscan belt
J.R. Martínez Catalán, R. Arenas, F. Díaz García, P. González Cuadra, J. Gómez-Barreiro, J. Abati, P. Castiñeiras, J. Fernández-Suárez, S. Sánchez Martínez, P. Andonaegui, E. González Clavijo, A. Díez Montes, F.J. Rubio Pascual, and B. Valle Aguado
403
22. Paleozoic ophiolites in the Variscan suture of Galicia (northwest Spain): Distribution, characteristics, and meaning
R. Arenas, J.R. Martínez Catalán, S. Sánchez Martínez, F. Díaz García, J. Abati, J. Fernández-Suárez, P. Andonaegui, and J. Gómez-Barreiro
425
23. Geochemistry of two associated ophiolites from the Cabo Ortegal Complex (Variscan Belt of NW Spain)
S. Sánchez Martínez, R. Arenas, P. Andonaegui, J.R. Martínez Catalán, and J.A. Pearce
445
24. U-Pb chronometry of polymetamorphic high-pressure granulites: An example from the allochthonous terranes of the NW Iberian Variscan Belt
J. Fernández-Suárez, R. Arenas, J. Abati, J.R. Martínez Catalán, M.J. Whitehouse, and T.E. Jeffries
469
25. Flexural to broken foreland basin evolution as a result of Variscan collisional events in northwestern Spain
M. Keller, H. Bahlburg, C.D. Reuther, and A. Weh
489
26. The Notre Dame arc and the Taconic orogeny in Newfoundland
C.R. van Staal, J.B. Whalen, V.J. McNicoll, S. Pehrsson, C.J. Lissenberg, A. Zagorevski, O. van Breemen, and G.A. Jenner
511
27. The Cat Square terrane: Possible Siluro-Devonian remnant ocean basin in the Inner Piedmont, southern Appalachians, USA
A.J. Merschat and R.D. Hatcher Jr.
553
28. Rifted-margin architecture, cover stratigraphy, and structure of basement culminations, frontal Appalachian Blue Ridge, Georgia, USA
J.F. Tull
567
29. Tectonic map of the southern and central Appalachians: A tale of three orogens and a complete Wilson cycle
R.D. Hatcher Jr., B.R. Bream, and A.J. Merschat
595
Index 633