Mélanges through time: Life cycle of the world's largest Archean mélange compared with Mesozoic and Paleozoic subduction-accretion-collision mélanges

T Kusky, J Wang, L Wang, B Huang, W Ning, D Fu… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mélanges represent a significant component of collisional and accretionary orogenic belts.
We present a comparison of subduction-accretion mélanges of different ages to test how …

Diagnostic features and field-criteria in recognition of tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric mélanges in orogenic belts and exhumed subduction-accretion complexes

A Festa, GA Pini, K Ogata, Y Dilek - Gondwana Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Multiple episodes of deformation during the tectonic evolution of orogenic belts and ancient
subduction-accretion complexes cause obfuscation of primary block-in-matrix fabric of …

Mechanisms and processes of stratal disruption and mixing in the development of mélanges and broken formations: Redefining and classifying mélanges

A Festa, Y Dilek, GA Pini, G Codegone, K Ogata - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
The terms mélange and broken formation have been used in different ways in the literature.
The lack of agreement on their definition often leads to confusion and misinterpretations. An …

[HTML][HTML] Mélanges and chaotic rock units: Implications for exhumed subduction complexes and orogenic belts

A Festa, E Barbero, F Remitti, K Ogata… - Geosystems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Most of mélanges occurring in exhumed subduction complexes and orogenic belts are
commonly interpreted as the product of tectonic processes (eg, underplating and return flow) …

Tectonic, diapiric and sedimentary chaotic rocks of the Rakhine coast, western Myanmar

GF Moore, LT Aung, R Fukuchi, JC Sample… - Gondwana …, 2019 - Elsevier
The western margin of Myanmar is the northern extension the active Sunda (India-Eurasia)
subduction zone. Coastal regions and offshore islands have remarkable exposures of …

Polygenetic mélanges: a glimpse on tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric recycling in convergent margins

A Festa, K Ogata, GA Pini - Journal of the Geological Society, 2020 - lyellcollection.org
A significant part of mélanges recognized in exhumed convergent margins around the world
has been recently documented to have chiefly originated from masse transport and …

[HTML][HTML] Seafloor spreading structure, geochronology, and tectonic evolution of the Küre ophiolite, Turkey: a Jurassic continental backarc basin oceanic lithosphere in …

G Alparslan, Y Dilek - Lithosphere, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Küre ophiolite in the Sakarya terrane in northern Anatolia is a Penrose-type ophiolite,
complete with a sheeted dike complex, and includes well-developed volcanogenic massive …

Structural evolution and deformation kinematics of a subduction-related serpentinite-matrix mélange, Santa Elena Peninsula, northwest Costa Rica

J Escuder-Viruete, PO Baumgartner - Journal of Structural Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Detailed structural analysis of the Isla Pelada serpentinite-matrix mélange on Santa Elena
Peninsula, Pacific coast of northwest Costa Rica, elucidates for the spatial distribution and …

Magnetic fabric of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy mélanges: a tool for unravelling protracted histories of oceanic plates from seafloor spreading to tectonic emplacement …

L Pellerey, J Žák, F Tomek, A Festa - Journal of the Geological …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
Multiple magnetic fabrics, referred to as F1–F5, were revealed through the anisotropy of
magnetic susceptibility in an Ocean Plate Stratigraphy (OPS) mélange of the Neoproterozoic …

Large-scale Variscan shearing at the southeastern margin of the eastern Rhenohercynian belt: a reinterpretation of chaotic rock fabrics in the Harz Mountains …

CH Friedel, H Huckriede, B Leiss, M Zweig - International Journal of Earth …, 2019 - Springer
For the past 50 years, large parts of the Harz Mountains (eastern Rhenohercynian Zone,
Germany) have been considered to consist of olistostromes of Early Carboniferous age …