Compressional Tectonics

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

• List of Contributors viiPreface ixPart I Plate Convergence1 When Plates Collide 3Elizabeth J Catlos and İbrahim Çemen2 Subduction and Obduction Processes: The Fate of Oceanic Lithosphere Revealed by Blueschists, Eclogites, and Ophiolites 21Philippe Agard, Mathieu Soret, Guillaume Bonnet, Dia Ninkabou, Alexis Plunder, Cécile Prigent, and Philippe Yamato3 Lateral Heterogeneity in Compressional Mountain Belt Settings 47Bibek Giri and Mary Hubbard4 A Review of the Dynamics of Subduction Zone Initiation in the Aegean Region 87Elizabeth J Catlos and İbrahim ÇemenPart II Alpine-Himalayan Collision5 Genesis of Himalayan Stratigraphy and the Tectonic Development of the Thrust Belt 121Delores M Robinson and Aaron J Martin6 Records of Himalayan Metamorphism and Contractional Tectonics in the Central Himalayas (Darondi Khola, Nepal) 155Elizabeth J Catlos7 Tectonics of the Southeast Anatolian Orogenic Belt 203Yücel Yılmaz, Erdinç Yiğitbaş, and İbrahim Çemen8 Tectonics of Eastern Anatolian Plateau: Final Stages of Collisional Orogeny in Anatolia 223Yücel Yılmaz, İbrahim Çemen, and Erdinç Yiğitbaş9 When and Why the NeoTethyan Subduction Initiated Along the Eurasian Margin: A Case Study From a Jurassic Eclogite in Southern Iran 245Bo Wan, Yang Chu, Ling Chen, Zhiyong Zhang, Songjian Ao, and Morteza TalebianPart III North America Mountain Building10 Stratigraphic and Thermal Maturity Evidence for a Break- Back Thrust Sequence in the Southern Appalachian Thrust Belt, Alabama, USA 263Jack C Pashin11 Strain Partitioning in Foreland Basins: An Example From the Ouachita Fold- Thrust Belt Arkoma Basin Transition Zone in Southeastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas 281İbrahim Çemen and Donald J Yezerski12 Extensional Collapse of Orogens: A Review and Example From the Southern Appalachian Orogen 301David A Foster, Chong Ma, Ben D Goscombe, and Paul A MuellerIndex 321