The Nahal Yael basin is underlain chiefly by schist, amphibolite, and granite. Thin (generally < 1 m thick), grussy colluvium which covered the lower portions of granitic hillslopes in the late Pleistocene has now been stripped completely, causing marked contrasts in outcrop morphologies, even where there is no contrast of fracture density or petrologic characteristics. Formerly mantled slopes ...

The Arosa Zone, Central Alps, represents a Cretaceous to Paleogene fossil subduction interface from paleodepths of 10 >35 km. Metasedimentary schists directly below preserved seismogenic zone exhibit viscous (foliations, folds, and lineations) brittle (crack-seal quartz ± calcite veins) deformation features. Si-in-phengite barometry published temperature estimates yield metamorphism conditions ...

Abstract New investigations of petrographic and geochemical characteristics Mesozoic sandstones from the northwestern Gulf Suez in Egypt have been undertaken, documenting dominance quartzose containing on average ~ 5% mostly sedimentary subordinately metamorphic lithic fragments (siltstone, sandy siltstone, and, more rarely slate, metasiltstone, limestone, dolostone, quartz-muscovite schist, gn...

Constraining conditions and mechanisms of the early stages exhumation from within subduction zones is challenging. Although pressure, temperature, age can be inferred exhumed rock record, it generally difficult to derive each these parameters any single rock, thus demanding assumptions that diverse data multiple samples safely combined into a pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) path might then us...

An exotic block of garnet-bearing schist has been found at the boundary between Early Triassic Takinosawa Unit Nedamo Belt and Jurassic Nakatsugawa Complex North Kitakami Belt, NE Japan. This is only second discovery schists in Belt; previously identified occur early Carboniferous Tsunatori units Belt. The characterized by a mineral assemblage garnet + phengite epidote albite quartz titanite. P...