Compressional Tectonics – Plate Convergence to Mountain Building: Geophysical Monograph Series

Elizabeth J. Catlos, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Ibrahim Çemen, The University of Alabama, USA

List of Contributors vii Preface ix Part I Plate Convergence 1 When Plates Collide 3 Elizabeth J Catlos and Ibrahim Çemen 2 Subduction and Obduction Processes: The Fate of Oceanic Lithosphere Revealed by Blueschists, Eclogites, and Ophiolites 21 Philippe Agard, Mathieu Soret, Guillaume Bonnet, Dia Ninkabou, Alexis Plunder, Cécile Prigent, and Philippe Yamato 3 Lateral Heterogeneity in Compressional Mountain Belt Settings 47 Bibek Giri and Mary Hubbard 4 A Review of the Dynamics of Subduction Zone Initiation in the Aegean Region 87 Elizabeth J Catlos and Ibrahim Çemen Part II Alpine-Himalayan Collision 5 Genesis of Himalayan Stratigraphy and the Tectonic Development of the Thrust Belt 121 Delores M Robinson and Aaron J Martin 6 Records of Himalayan Metamorphism and Contractional Tectonics in the Central Himalayas (Darondi Khola, Nepal) 155 Elizabeth J Catlos 7 Tectonics of the Southeast Anatolian Orogenic Belt 203 Yücel Y1lmaz, Erdinç Yiitbas, and Ibrahim Çemen 8 Tectonics of Eastern Anatolian Plateau: Final Stages of Collisional Orogeny in Anatolia 223 Yücel Y1lmaz, Ibrahim Çemen, and Erdinç Yiitbas 9 When and Why the NeoTethyan Subduction Initiated Along the Eurasian Margin: A Case Study From a Jurassic Eclogite in Southern Iran 245 Bo Wan, Yang Chu, Ling Chen, Zhiyong Zhang, Songjian Ao, and Morteza Talebian Part III North America Mountain Building 10 Stratigraphic and Thermal Maturity Evidence for a Break- Back Thrust Sequence in the Southern Appalachian Thrust Belt, Alabama, USA 263 Jack C Pashin 11 Strain Partitioning in Foreland Basins: An Example From the Ouachita Fold- Thrust Belt Arkoma Basin Transition Zone in Southeastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas 281 Ibrahim Çemen and Donald J Yezerski 12 Extensional Collapse of Orogens: A Review and Example From the Southern Appalachian Orogen 301 David A Foster, Chong Ma, Ben D Goscombe, and Paul A Mueller Index 321