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Table of Contents - Special Paper 419

Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions: A Tribute to W.G. Ernst

edited by M. Cloos, W.D. Carlson, M.C. Gilbert, J.G. Liou, S.S. Sorensen

Preface		v
1.	Exhumation of the Orocopia Schist and associated rocks of southeastern California: Relative roles of erosion, synsubduction tectonic denudation, and middle Cenozoic extension Carl E. Jacobson, Marty Grove, Ana Vućić, Jane N. Pedrick, and Kristin A. Ebert	1
2.	Thermal evolution and exhumation of deep-level batholithic exposures, southernmost Sierra Nevada, California J. Saleeby, K.A. Farley, R.W. Kistler, and R.J. Fleck	39
3.	Finding of high-grade tectonic blocks from the New Idria serpentinite body, Diablo Range, California: Petrologic constraints on the tectonic evolution of an active serpentinite diapir Tatsuki Tsujimori, Juhn G. Liou, and Robert G. Coleman	67
4.	Alternative tectonic model for Late Jurassic through Early Cretaceous evolution of the Great Valley Group, California James E. Wright and Sandra J. Wyld	81
5.	Structural controls on middle Cretaceous sedimentation in the Toney Butte area of the Mitchell inlier, Ochoco basin, central Oregon Rebecca J. Dorsey and Robert J. Lenegan	97
6.	Thermochronology of the New Caledonian high-pressure terrane: Implications for middle Tertiary plate boundary processes in the southwest Pacific Suzanne L. Baldwin, Timothy Rawling, and Paul G. Fitzgerald	117
7.	Geochronologic constraints across the Main Central Thrust shear zone, Bhagirathi River (NW India): Implications for Himalayan tectonics Elizabeth J. Catlos, Chandra Shekhar Dubey, Richard A. Marston, and T. Mark Harrison	135
8.	The Maksyutov Complex: The first UHP terrane 40 years later Rachel Beane and Mary Leech	153
9.	Ascent of the ultrahigh-pressure Western Gneiss Region, Norway Bradley Hacker	171
10.	Metamorphism in the Ross orogen and its bearing on Gondwana margin tectonics John W. Goodge	185
11.	Late Cretaceous to Paleocene metamorphism and magmatism in the Funeral Mountains metamorphic core complex, Death Valley, California Christopher G. Mattinson, Joseph P. Colgan, James R. Metcalf, Elizabeth L. Miller, and Joseph L. Wooden	205
12.	Subvolcanic sheeted sills and nonsheeted dikes in ophiolites: Occurrence, origin, and tectonic significance for oceanic crust generation Clifford A. Hopson	225
13.	Venus’s evolution: A synthesis V.L. Hansen and D.A. Young	255