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CONTENTS Tectonophysics Volume 191 Research Papers Geologic evaluation of plate kinematic models for the North American—Caribbean plate boundary zone Heubeck, Ch. and Mann, P. (Austin, Tex., U.S.A.) The tectonic evolution of the South Atlantic from Late Jurassic to present Narnberg, D. (Kiel, F.R.G.) and Maller, R.D. (Austin, Tex., U.S.A.) Post-Pan-African tectonic evolution of South Malawi in relation to the Karroo and Recent East African Systems Castaing, C. (Orléans, France) High-Ti continental tholeiites from the Aznam trough, northwestern Saudi Arabia: evidence of ‘‘abortive”’ rifting in the “embryonic” stage of Red Sea opening Suayah, |.B., Rogers, J.J.W. and Dabbagh, M.E. (Chapel Hill, N.C., U.S.A.) Emplacement and deformation of granitoids during volcanic arc construction in the Foothills terrane, central Sierra Nevada, California Paterson, S.R. (Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.), Tobisch, O.T. (Santa Cruz, Calif., U.S.A.) and Vernon, R.H. (Sydney, Australia) Seismic reflection trace synthesized from Proterozoic outcrop and its correlation to seismic profiles in northwestern Canada Cook, F.A. and Taylor, G.G. (Galgary, Alta., Canada) Geological interpretation of DEKORP deep seismic reflection profiles IC and 9N across the Variscan Saar—Nahe Basin, southwest Germany Koracty, Ful. ane Sener, A; (BONN, FLAG) oe occ cia ccc cima ea tedioceereneeasesenceescacens 127 The effect of plagioclase textures on velocity anisotropy and shear wave splitting at deeper crustal levels Siegesmund, S. (Géttingen, F.R.G.) and Kruhl, J.H. (Berlin, F.R.G.) Periodicity in seismicity: examination of four catalogs Lindholm, C.D., Havskov, J. and Sellevoll, M.A. (Bergen, Norway) Seismic hazard assessment for the main seismogenic zones in the Eastern Alps Slejko, D. (Trieste, Italy) and Kijko, A. (Helsinki, Finland) Special issue: Deformation and Plate Tectonics (edited by A. Pérez-Estauin and M.P. Coward) Introduction Coward, M.P. (London, U.K.) and Pérez-Estatin, A. (Oviedo, Spain) Indian Plate motion and shape: constraints on the geometry of the Himalayan orogen Ttreloar, P.J. and’ Caward, WP: (GOndGn; CLIC) «5c cing bccn eee cee ie te cees seer eecccecceces A critical review of tectonic processes at continental margin orogens Edelman, S.H. (Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.A.) The ophiolites of northeast India—a subduction zone ophiolite complex of the Indo-Burman orogenic belt Bhattacharjee, C.C. (Gauhati, Assam, India) Relationships between kinematics of arc—continent collision and kinematics of thrust faults, folds, shear zones, and foliations in the Nevadan orogen, northern Sierra Nevada, California Edelman, S.H. (Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.A.) Interactive property of large thrust sheets with footwall rocks—the Subthrust Interactive Duplex Hypothesis: a mechanism of dome formation in thrust sheets Hatcher, R.D., Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.) Crustal thickening and deformation sequence in the footwall to the suture of the Variscan belt of northwest Spain Pérez-Estauin, A. (Oviedo, Spain), Martinez-Catalan, J.R. (Salamanca, Spain) and Bastida, F. (Oviedo, Spain) ... . Geometry of a Middle Proterozoic extensional décollement in northeastern Australia Holcombe, R.J., Pearson, P.J. (St Lucia, Qid, Australia) and Oliver, N.H.S. (Clayton, Vic., Australia) Mid-crustal detachment in the Betic system of southeast Spain Banks, C.J. and Warburton, J. (London, U.K.) Continuous deformation, ductile thrusting and backfolding of cover and basement in the Sierra de Guadarrama, Hercynian orogen of central Spain Macaya, J. (Salamanca, Spain), Gonzalez-Lodeiro, F. (Granada, Spain), Martinez-Catalan, J.R. and Alvarez, F. (Salamanca, Spain) tas Extensional tectonics of the Toledo ductile—brittle shear zone, central Iberian Massif Hernandez Enrile, J.L. (Madrid, Spain) Late Hercynian extensional and transcurrent tectonics in Central Iberia Doblas, M. (Madrid, Spain) The overprint of the Alpine tectono-metamorphic evolution on the Hercynian orogen: an example from the Apuane Alps (Norther Apennines, Italy) Conti, P., Gattiglio, M. and Meccheri, M. (Pisa, Italy) Opposite P, T, t paths of Hercynian metamorphism between the upper units of the Cabo Ortegal Complex and their substratum (northwest of the Iberian Massif) Arenas, R. (Madrid, Spain) Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Almaden de la Plata Core (Seville, Spain) in relation to syn-metamorphic shear between the Ossa—Morena and South Portugese zones of the Iberian Variscan fold belt Abalos Villaro, B., Gil Ibarguchi, |. and Eguiluz, L. (Bilbao, Spain) Finite strain analysis in a transpressive regime (Variscan autochthon, northeast Portugal) Dias, R. and Ribeiro, A. (Lisbon, Portugal) An application of the slip model of brittle deformation to focal mechanism analysis in three different plate tectonic situations Capote, R., De Vicente, G. and Gonzalez Casado, J.M. (Madrid, Spain) Selected Abstracts Plate-tectonic constraints derived from small-scale structure and P, T, t evolutions: a case study from the Betic Cordilleras (southeast Spain) Bakker, H.E. (Weesp, The Netherlands) and De Jong, K. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) The Central Brazil pop-up: an example of double ancient oblique continental colision Costa, J.B.S. (Para, Belen, Brazil), Hasui, Y. (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Haralyi, N.L.E. (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Extension structures as a precursor of thrust geometry Deramond, J., Baby, P., Crouzet, G. and Specht, M. (Toulouse, France) Deformation in the blueschists of the Greater Antilles: subduction versus collision processes Draper, G. (Miami, Fla., U.S.A.) Displacement-strain relations in linear tectonic zones Durney, D.W. (North Ryde, N.S.W., Australia) Collision deformation across the lapetus Suture Zone observed from deep-seismic reflection profiles Freeman, B. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.), Klemperer, S.L. and Hobbs, R.W. (Cambridge, U.K.) Mantle eduction, a second order process in plate tectonics Fyfe, W.S., Landefeld, L.A. (London, Ont., Canada), Ribeiro, A., Barriga, F.J.A.S. and Munha, J. (Lisbon, Portugal) The movement across the Nevado-Filabride shear zones and the convergence of Europe and Africa (Betic orogen) Garcia-Duehas, V., Gonzalez Lodeiro, F., Jabaloy, A., Martinez Martinez, J.M. (Granada, Spain) and Orozco, M. (Sevilla, Spain) Mesozoic and Tertiary plate tectonics in central and Northwest Europe Graversen, O. (Copenhagen, Denmark) Palaeozoic back-arc deformation, SE Australia Gray, D.R. (Clayton, Vic., Australia) and Fergusson, C.L. (Wollongong, Australia) Granite magmatism in the East Saharan Craton initiated by arc—continent collision in the Nubian Shield Harms, U. (Berlin, F.R.G.) Relationships between the Alpine suture and the Insubric line in the Central Alps: structural, geochronological and geophysical evidence Heitzmann, P. (Bern, Switzerland) Computer-aided calculation of plate movements through the TECCOMP stress analysis system Kampschuur, W., Kaper, J.J. and Bretan, P.G. (Weesp, The Netherlands) Superposed strain patterns versus plurifacial metamorphic evolution in the Monts du Lyonnais area (French Massif Central): a record of subduction, collision and intracontinental evolution in the Variscan orogenic belt Lardeaux, J.-M. (Lyon, France) Out-of-sequence thrusting at the leading edge of the McConneli Thrust, front ranges of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada Maurel, L.E. (Calgary, Alta., Canada) Geodynamic evolution of the Hercynian Sardinian—Corsican Massif: the relationships with the Calabrian—Pelotoritan Arc Minzoni, N. (Ferrara, Italy) , Evolution of a metamorphic belt: a consequence of arc—continent collision? Morand, V.J. and Gay, D.R. (Clayton, Vic., Australia) Controls on the structural development of an accretionary complex: the Shimanto Belt, Southwest Japan Needham, D.T., Agar, S.M. and Mackenzie, J.S. (London, UK) Subduction tectonic erosion leading to fore-arc (imbricate) collapse: a major process with implications for terrane juxtaposition Osmaston, M.F. (Woking, Surrey, U.K.) The Cantabrian Zone: an interpretation for an arcuate foreland thrust belt Pérez-Estatn, A., Bastida, F., Alonso, J.L., Marquinez, J., Aller, J., Alvarez-Marrén, J., Farias, P., Marcos, A. and Pulgar, J.A. (Oviedo, Spain) Crustal mesoplate tectonics: deformation in continental interiors during collisional orogeny Phipps, S.P. (Philadelphia, Penn., U.S.A.) Flake tectonics in the Northwest Iberian Variscides Ribeiro, A., Pereira, E. and Iglesias, M. (Lisbon, Portugal) Tectonostratigraphic terranes and the geodynamic evolution of the Iberian Variscan Fold Belt Ribeiro, A. (Lisbon, Portugal), Quesada, C. (Madrid, Spain) and Dallmeyer, R.D. (Athens, Ga., U.S.A.).......... The geotectonic evolution of the eastern part of the Namaqualand Metamorphic Province, South Africa Slabbert, M.J., Malherbe, S.J., Agenbacht, A.L.D. (Upington, South Africa) and Botha, B.J.V. (Bloemfontein, South Africa) Syn-sedimentary extension: paleostress and model of shortening of a passive margin activated by collision Stel, H. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Plate subduction and related deformation: a 600 km crustal transect across the Antarctic Peninsula magmatic arc Storey, B.C., Nell, P.A.R. and Tranter, T.H. (Cambridge, U.K.) Obduction-induced deformation in the footwall of the early Alpine suture, Penninic Realm, Northern Italy Vogler, W.S. (KéIn, F.R.G.) Deformation and metamorphism during subduction and obduction of layered peridotites from the Alpine Piemonte ophiolite nappe Vogler, W.S. (K6In, F.R.G.) Deformations of the Juan de Fuca—North American plate boundary Yokokura, T., Nakiboglu, S.M. and Wu, P. (Calgary, Alta., Canada)