Exposed Cross-Sections of the Continental Crust

Abstract

Phanerozoic Sections.- The Ivrea crustal cross-section (northern Italy and southern Switzerland).- The exposed crustal cross section of southern Calabria, Italy: structure and evolution of a segment of Hercynian crust.- An exposed cross-section of continental crust, Doubtful Sound Fiordland, New Zealand geophysical and geological setting.- Uplift and exhumation of middle and lower crustal rocks in an extensional tectonic setting, Fiordland, New Zealand.- A crustal cross-section for a terrain of superimposed shortening and extension: Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada.- Progress in tectonic and petrogenetic studies in an exposed cross- section of young (~100 Ma) continental crust, southern Sierra Nevada, California.- Characteristics of a continental margin magmatic arc as a function of depth: the Skagit-Methow crustal section.- The evolution of the Kamila Shear Zone, Kohistan, Pakistan.- Crustal formation at depth during continental collision.- Precambrian Sections.- A Field Guide to the Kapuskasing Uplift, a cross section through the Archean Superior province.- Major thrust faults and the vertical zonation of the middle to upper Proterozoic crust in central Australia.- The late Archean high-grade terrain of south India and the deep structure of the Dharwar Craton.- An oblique cross section of Archean continental crust at the northwestern margin of Superior Province, Manitoba, Canada.- Two transects across the Grenville Front, Killarney and Tyson Lake areas, Ontario.- Crustal Composition and the Role of Fluids.- Basaltic composition xenoliths and the formation, modification and preservation of lower crust.- Average composition of lower and intermediate continental crust, Kapuskasing structural zone, Ontario.- Fluid-rock interactions in the Ivrea Zone and the origin of high lower crustal conductivities.- Electrical conductivity: the story of an elusive parameter, and of how it possibly relates to the Kapuskasing Uplift (Lithoprobe, Canada).- Faults, Crustal Deformation and Emplacement Mechanisms.- Deformation sequence in the southeastern Kapuskasing structural zone, Ivanhoe Lake, Ontario, Canada.- The exhumation of cross sections of the continental crust: structure, kinematics and rheology.- The fluid crustal layer and its implications for continental dynamics.- Geophysical Structure and Properties of the Crust.- Geophysical interpretation of astrogravimetric data in the Ivrea Zone.- The nature of the Kapuskasing Structural Zone: results from the 1984 seismic refraction experiment.- Exposed continental crust: seismic results to be tested.- The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle offshore Britain: deep seismic reflection profiling and crustal cross-sections.- Intracrustal detachment and wedging along a detailed cross section in Central Europe.- Overview.- Strategy for exploration of the buried continental crust.- Exposed cross sections of the continental crust - synopsis.