Geometries and Mechanisms of Thrusting, with special reference to the Appalachians

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

The Moine thrust and the Scottish Caledonides

Nature of deformation in some fault rocks from Appalachian thrusts

Heat transfer and fault geometry in the Taconian thrust belt, western New England

The role of kinematics in the construction and analysis of geological cross sections in deformed terranes

Kinematics of deformation at a thrust fault ramp (?) from syntectonic fibers in pressure shadows

Structural evolution of folded thrusts and duplexes on a first-order anticlinorium in the Valley and Ridge Province of Pennsylvania

The North Mountain–Pulaski fault system and related thrust sheet structure

Relations between deformation of crystalline basement and sedimentary cover at the basement/cover transition zone of the Appalachian Blue Ridge Province

The Rome Formation décollement in the Mountain City window, Tennessee; A case for involvement of evaporites in the genesis of Max Meadows-type breccias

Critical evidence for southern Appalachian Valley and Ridge thrust sequence

Origin and palinspastic significance of a fault duplex near Cartersville, Georgia

Geometric and time relationships between thrusts in the crystalline southern Appalachians

Kinematic models of plane-roofed duplex styles

Sequential development of a frontal ramp, imbricates, and a major fold in the Kemmerer region of the Wyoming thrust belt

Discontinuities along thrust faults and the cleavage duplexes

Back Matter