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The Tavsanli Zone of northwest Turkey is a tract of metacherts, metapelites and metabasite lithologies that have undergone a single metamorphic cycle in the lawsonite-blueschist, epidote-blueschist and low-temperature eclogite sub-facies. These deeply subducted rocks which forme…

Subduction zones host the world’s largest earthquakes, but seismic slip is only one style of deformation along the subduction interface. The deformation processes above and below the seismogenic zone are equally fundamental to understanding how relative motion is accommodated du…

Fiordland, New Zealand provides an opportunity to study the complex relationship between magmatism and metamorphism in the lower crust of a magmatic arc. The Eastern McKerr Intrusives, which are well exposed along George Sound, are a constituent of the Western Fiordland Orthogne…

The Nanaimo Group of southwestern British Columbia has been the source of significant scientific interest due to its relationship with the Baja British Columbia (Baja BC) hypothesis -- the idea that the Nanaimo Group, along with much of western British Columbia, was originally l…