The Franciscan triad -- an overview -- Pressure-temperature evolution and evidence for solution-mass-transfer deformation -- Methods of strain analysis, sampling, and data collection -- Brittle strain on the coast range fault zone -- Brittle strain in the Franciscan subduction complex Ductile strain and mass loss in the eastern and central franciscan belts -- Role of ductile thinning of the overburden to exhumation of the high-pressure metamorphic rocks
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"The Franciscan subduction complex formed a long-lived accretionary wedge of Late Jurassic through Oligocene age that fringed the western edge of the North American Cordillera. This volume summarizes absolute finite-strain data from the Franciscan subduction complex and brittle strain data from important faults in and above this complex. Because the Franciscan is generally considered a prototypical sediment-rich subduction complex, its tectonic evolution is important for understanding convergent plate margins, and the results outlined in this volume may have broad implications for other subduction-zone settings."--pub. desc