Basement Tectonics 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 1987

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Tectonics of Some Spatial Arrays....Pages 1-11
Counterclockwise Converging Basement Fracturing Patterns Across the Arabian Peninsula and Eastern Iran....Pages 13-31
Evidence of Large Horizontal Earth Movements....Pages 33-48
The Significance of NE-SW Parallel Fractures in the West African Craton....Pages 49-60
The Mutito and Ikoo Faults in the Pan-African Mozambique Belt, Eastern Kenya....Pages 61-69
Rift Related Magmatism and the Petrogenesis of Lavas from the Kiejo Eruptive, Rungwe Volcanic Province, S.W. Tanzania....Pages 71-82
Deformation and Intrusion in Deeply Buried Rocks: Creep, High-Angle Ductile and Brittle Shear, and Congruent Shear Arrays....Pages 83-93
Western Himalaya Basement Reactivation....Pages 95-110
The Karakoram Crustal Fracture: Oblique Convergence in the Asiatic Tethys....Pages 111-121
Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern South America....Pages 123-137
Fracture Patterns on the Canadian Shield: A Lineament Study with Landsat and Orbital Radar Imagery....Pages 139-159
The 1,800 Ma Mylonite-Anatectic Granitoid Association in Tandilia, Argentina....Pages 161-174
The Gabbro-Dolerite Magmatism of the Foum Zguid Region: Relation to Deep Structure of Morocco and Possible Potential for Cobalt, Nickel and Platinum-Group Metals....Pages 175-193
Speculations on the Origin of the Anadarko Basin....Pages 195-208
Fundamental Crustal Lineaments and Transverse Structural Zones in Continental Rifts....Pages 209-217
Tectonic Controls on the Lake Victoria Basin....Pages 219-226
Basement Extension on the Newfoundland Continental Margin (Canadian East Coast)....Pages 227-256
Structural Fabric of the North American Continent, as Defined by Gravity Trends....Pages 257-276
Neotectonic Framework of the United States....Pages 277-288
Jurassic History of the Central Sierra Nevada and the ‘Nevadan’ Orogeny....Pages 289-303
Eastern Canadian Cordillera: Implications of a Balanced Basement....Pages 305-310
Geology of the Quesnel Lake Region, Central British Columbia: Geometry and Implications....Pages 311-327
Regional Digital Analysis of Major Crustal Structures in Washington State....Pages 329-340
Possibilities of Similar Rift Histories for the Central North American Rift System in Kansas and the Hartville Uplift in Wyoming....Pages 341-351
The Duchesne Lineament — Utah and Colorado....Pages 353-362
Appalachian Grenville Massifs: Pre-Appalachian Translational Tectonics....Pages 363-374
The Origin of the Pine Mountain Window: An Internal Basement Massif within the Piedmont of Alabama and Georgia....Pages 375-383
Recurrent Igneous Activity and Movements on Deep Faults Inherited from the Sutton Mountains Triple Junction....Pages 385-398
Structural Control of Mesozoic Magmatism in New England....Pages 399-407
Northwest-Trending Basement Fracture Zones in the Eastern United States and their Role in Controlling Neotectonic Movement and Earthquakes....Pages 409-423
Geophysical Investigations of the Central Metasedimentary Belt, Grenville Province: Quebec to Northern New York State....Pages 425-440
Regional Structural Reconnaissance of the Southwestern Grenville Province Using Remotely Sensed Imagery....Pages 441-463
Basement Influence on the Supracrustal and Plutonic Evolution and Deformation of an Archean Greenstone Belt....Pages 465-476
Ductile Deformation of the Whitestone Anorthosite: Progressive Changes within the Parry Sound Shear Zone....Pages 477-477
Role of Quartz-Bearing Dikes in Incipient Deformation of Whitestone Leucogabbro from the Parry Sound Shear Zone, Ontario, Canada....Pages 477-477
The Radar Structure of Brazil South of the Amazon Basin with Special Emphasis on the Structural Setting of the Quadralatero Ferrifero, Minas Gerais State....Pages 477-478
Deep-Crustal Response to Transpressional Shear in Brazil....Pages 478-478
Crustal Mesoplate Tectonics: Deformation in Continental Interiors by Basement Detachment....Pages 479-479
Proterozoic Basement-Cover Relationships in the Needle Mountains, SW Colorado, USA: A Cuspate-Lobate Fold Model....Pages 479-480
Permian Tectonics from the Gulf of St. Lawrence: Evidence from Paleomagnetism....Pages 480-480
Oxygen Isotope Studies of Rocks Across the Grenville Front....Pages 480-480
Back Matter....Pages 481-481