Articles | Volume 8, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-379-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-379-2017
Research article
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30 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 30 Mar 2017

Structural and rheological evolution of the Laramide subduction channel in southern California

Haoran Xia and John P. Platt

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We investigated the Pelona Schist, an exhumed subduction complex in southern California associated with the Laramide subduction in Late Cretaceous–Paleocene. Based on field, microstructural and petrologic analyses, we established the deformational and metamorphic history of the Pelona Schist and discussed the exhumation process. Then we presented the rheological properties and deformation mechanisms of the Pelona Schist during each phase of deformation.