Table of Contents - SPE221: The Late Cretaceous San Juan Thrust System, San Juan Islands, Washington
Acknowledgments
Abstract
Introduction
Paleozoic and lower Mesozoic rocks of the thrust system
Upper Mesozoic rocks of the thrust system
Constitution Formation: Upper Mesozoic elastic sequence
Stratigraphy
Age
Provenance of clastic rocks
Origin and tectonic setting
Regional correlation
López Structural Complex: Late Cretaceous imbricate fault zone
Rock units and ages
Internal structural relations
Decatur terrane: Upper Mesozoic ophiolite, arc, and clastic sequence
Composition and age of the Fidalgo Complex
Geochemistry and tectonic setting of the Fidalgo Complex
Stratigraphic and age of the Lummi Formation
Metamorphism of Decatur rocks
Regional correlation
External units: Mesozoic units forward of, and below, the San Juan thrust system
Haro terrane: Upper Triassic and Jura-Cretaceous volcaniclastic units
Haro Formation (Upper Triassic)
Spieden Group (Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous)
Nanaimo Group: Upper Cretaceous syn-orogenic clastic sequence
Post-orogenic unit. The Eocene Chuckanut Formation
High-pressure metamorphism and its relation to thrusting
Terrane accretion and Late Cretaceous thrusting
Concluding remarks
Appendices
A. Summary of fossil ages and isotopic dates
B. Summary of geochemical analyses
References cited