Tectonic significance of carbonatite and ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Pan-African Dahomeyide suture zone, southeastern Ghana

2008 ◽  
Vol 297 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kodjopa Attoh ◽  
Prosper M. Nude
Keyword(s):  
Suture Zone ◽  
Ultrahigh Pressure ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Tectonic Significance

Eclogitic rocks in the St. Cyr klippe, Yukon, and their tectonic significance

1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1296-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Erdmer
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Oceanic Crust ◽  
North American ◽  
Suture Zone ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
The North ◽  
Tectonic Significance ◽  
Subducted Oceanic Crust ◽  
Ophiolitic Rocks ◽  
Subducting Slab

Until recently, the Nisutlin allochthonous assemblage, a part of the Yukon–Tanana composite terrane interpreted as trench mélange from a late Paleozoic – Mesozoic arc system, was the only tectonic assemblage known to include subducted material in the northern Cordillera. The discovery of eclogitic rocks in two parts of a klippe of the Anvil allochthonous assemblage, which comprises mafic ophiolitic rocks, above the Cassiar terrane west of the Tintina fault confirms other evidence that subducted oceanic crust was also returned to the surface. The eclogitic rocks have been largely retrograded by postsubduction metamorphism. Their existence is interpreted as additional evidence of the link between nappes above the Cassiar terrane and their inferred root, the Teslin suture zone. The Nisutlin and Anvil allochthonous assemblages can now be interpreted, not simply as crustally metamorphosed assemblages with minor, structurally interleaved high-pressure components, but as deeply metamorphosed and intensely strained slices of continental and oceanic crust switched from subducting slab to overriding plate and returned to the surface during collision of the arc with the North American margin.

Proterozoic collisional basins in a Pan-African suture zone, anti-atlas mountains, Morocco

1992 ◽  
Vol 54 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 295-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin P. Hefferan ◽  
Jeffrey A. Karson ◽  
Ali Saquaque
Keyword(s):  
Suture Zone ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Atlas Mountains

Geochemistry and tectonic significance of ophiolites along the İzmir–Ankara–Erzincan Suture Zone in northeastern Anatolia

2012 ◽  
Vol 372 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Parlak ◽  
Aydin Çolakoğlu ◽  
Cahit Dönmez ◽  
Hüseyin Sayak ◽  
Nail Yildirim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suture Zone ◽  
Tectonic Significance
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