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Table of Contents - Special Paper 456

Crustal Cross Sections from the Western North American Cordillera and Elsewhere: Implications for Tectonic and Petrologic Processes

edited by Robert B. Miller and Arthur W. Snoke

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Acknowledgments
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1. The utility of crustal cross sections in the analysis of orogenic processes in contrasting tectonic settings
R.B. Miller and A.W. Snoke		 1
2. Petrology and geochronology of crustal xenoliths from the Bering Strait region: Linking deep and shallow processes in extending continental crust
V.V. Akinin, E.L. Miller, and J.L. Wooden 		39
3. Construction and evolution of the Kodiak Talkeetna arc crustal section, southern Alaska
D.W. Farris 		69
4. Mid-Cretaceous–Recent crustal evolution in the central Coast orogen, British Columbia and southeastern Alaska
M.L. Crawford, K.A. Klepeis, G.E. Gehrels, and J. Lindline 		97
5. Plutonism at different crustal levels: Insights from the ~5–40 km (paleodepth) North Cascades crustal section, Washington
R.B. Miller, S.R. Paterson, and J.P. Matzel 		125
6. Granulite- to amphibolite-facies metamorphism and penetrative deformation in a disrupted ophiolite, Klamath Mountains, California: A deep view into the basement of an accreted oceanic arc
S.R. Garlick, L.G. Medaris Jr., A.W. Snoke, J.J. Schwartz, and S.M. Swapp 		151
7. Mesozoic magmatism in an upper- to middle-crustal section through the Cordilleran continental margin arc, eastern Transverse Ranges, California
S.K. Needy, J.L. Anderson, J.L. Wooden, R.J. Fleck, A.P. Barth, S.R. Paterson, V. Memeti, and G.S. Pignotta 		187
8. Perspectives on the architecture of continental crust from integrated field studies of exposed isobaric sections
M.L. Williams, K.E. Karlstrom, G. Dumond, and K.H. Mahan 		219
9. Evolution of the middle and lower continental crust during the transition from contraction to extension in Fiordland, New Zealand
K.A. Klepeis and D.S. King 		243
10. A granulite-facies normal shear zone exposed in the Arunta inlier of central Australia: Implications for deep-crustal deformation during oblique divergence
C. Waters-Tormey, L.B. Goodwin, B. Tikoff, K. Staffier, and P. Kelso 		267

Index		 287