Paleomagnetic Rotations and Continental Deformation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Block Rotations in Continental Crust: Examples from Western North America

   • M. E. Beck Jr.

   Pages 1-16

3. The Kinematics and Dynamics of Distributed Deformation

   • D. Mckenzie, J. Jackson

   Pages 17-31

4. Relations Between Seismicity and Paleomagnetic Rotations in Zones of Distributed Continental Deformation

   • J. Jackson, D. McKenzie

   Pages 33-42

5. The Detection of Rotations by Surveying Techniques

   • P. A. Cross

   Pages 43-67

6. Geodetic Measurements of Continental Deformations: Projects and First Results

   • E. Geiss, Ch. Reigber, P. Schwintzer

   Pages 69-81

7. Continental Rotational Deformation: Examples from Greece

   • S. Pavlides

   Pages 83-93

8. Cenozoic Magmatism, Deep Tectonics, and Crustal Deformation in the Aegean Sea

   • G. A. Papadopoulos

   Pages 95-113

9. A Pattern of Block Rotations in Central Aegea

   • C. Kissel, C. Laj, A. Poisson, K. Simeakis

   Pages 115-129

10. Late Cenozoic Rotatons Along the North Aegean Trough Fault Zone (Greece); Structural Constraints

    • C. Simeakis, J. L. Mercier, P. Vergely, C. Kissel

    Pages 131-143

11. Some Experiments on Block Rotation in the Brittle Upper Crust

    • P. R. Cobbold, J. P. Brun, P. Davy, G. Fiquet, C. Basile, D. Gapais

    Pages 145-155

12. Large Rates of Rotation in Continental Lithosphere. Undergoing Distributed Deformation

    • P. England

    Pages 157-164

13. Strain and Displacement in the Brittle Field

    • P. Choukroune

    Pages 165-180

14. Regional Deformation by Block Translation and Rotation

    • Z. Garfunkel

    Pages 181-208

15. Mechanics of Distributed Fault and Block Rotation

    • A. Nur, H. Ron, O. Scotti

    Pages 209-228

16. Crustal Rotation and Fault Slip in the Continental Transform Zone in Southern California

    • B. P. Luyendyk

    Pages 229-246

17. Evidence for Contemporary Block Rotation in Strike-Slip Environments: Examples from the San Andreas Fault System, Southern California

    • C. Nicholson, L. Seeber

    Pages 247-280

18. The Importance of Magnetostratigraphy for Studies of Tectonic Rotations: Examples from the Mio-Pliocene of California

    • K. L. Verosub, E. J. Holm

    Pages 281-292

19. The Application of Palaeomagnetism to Extensional Tectonics: A Palaeomagnetic Study of the Parker District, Basin and Range Province, Arizona

    • P. Dagley, J. D. A. Piper

    Pages 293-311

20. Mechanisms of Cenozoic Tectonic Rotation, Pacific Northwest Convergent Margin, U.S.A.

    • R. E. Wells

    Pages 313-325

One of the most interesting results obtained in the last two decades in the study of crustal deformation has been the recognition that large regions of continental crust undergo rotations about vertical axis during deformation. Proof of such rotations has come through the paleomagnetic studies, which reveal rotations when paleomagnetic declinations within the deforming region arc compared with those found in coeval rocks in the stable regions outside the deforming zone. Such rotations were first described in Oregon then in the North American Cordilleras and in Southern California and were a surprise to everyone. Even in California which, as a result of oil exploration, was among the best geologically explored regions in the world, no one could claim to have predicted that these rotations would be found. Rotations have subsequently been found in other areas of recent continental tectonic activity, notably in the Basin and Range province, New Zealand, the Andes, Greece and Western Turkey, so that they appear as an important feature of continental deformation.

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Geophysics April 1991

• Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, Laboratoire mixte CNRS/CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  Catherine Kissel, Carlo Laj

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