The architecture and pressure-temperature conditions reached by a Cretaceous block-in-matrix serpentinite mélange exposed in the Zagros suture resemble those imaged active Mariana subduction zone. There, large magnitude-earthquakes (M>w9) have never been recorded but smaller events – of poorly-constrained physical origin range M?w3-6 are widespread. Field petro-structural constraints led to fir...

Structural analysis of quartz vein systems and fluid inclusion criteria were used to distinguish five different fluid types which flowed through a segment of Palaeozoic crust in southwest England during the Variscan orogeny. Mineralogical constraints in combination with fluid inclusion thermobarometry enabled the temperature of vein formation to be estimated, and isotopic compositions of fluids...

Deformation measurements from 64 sandstone samples collected in three study areas from the Eastern Belt of the Franciscan Complex are used to evaluate how the high­ pressure metamorphic interior of the Franciscan wedge was exhumed. Pressure estimates indicate 25-30 km of exhumation in this part of the Franciscan Complex. Much of the Eastern Belt has a semi-penetrative cleavage that formed by so...

There are two basic Fe-rich lithologies at Weld Range: (l) banded iron-formation containing minnesotaite, siderite, quarlz,magnetite, greenalite, stilpnomelane, pyrite, and chamosite with trace amounts of pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, apatite, and rockbridgeite; Q) Fe-shale. which occurs as laminated 2-30cm-thick bands within banded iron-formation, containing chamosite, stilpnomelane,...