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    Publication Date: 2011-06-16
    Description: : The Nordfjord region of western Norway hosts an archetypal subducted crustal section, underpinned by ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) eclogite, overlain by Devonian sediments, and cored by a crustal-scale extensional shear zone. Structural mapping reveals two distinct displacement zones that played different roles during the formation and exhumation of this section: (1) the Sandane Shear Zone is a NW-dipping, amphibolite-facies, high-strain zone near the base of the eclogite-bearing crust that separates allochthonous units from underlying crystalline basement; it may have originated during early thrusting, but was overprinted by top-to-the-west extensional fabrics at lower crustal depths; (2) structurally above this, the Nordfjord–Sogn Detachment Zone is a top-to-the-west, amphibolite- to greenschist-facies detachment shear zone within allochthonous units that defines the upper boundary of the eclogitized crust and was responsible for exhumation through at least mid-crustal depths. Muscovite 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages suggest that amphibolite-facies deformation below the Nordfjord–Sogn Detachment was mostly finished by c . 397 Ma, whereas muscovite ages from the deeper parts of the UHP domain indicate that it cooled after 390 Ma. During exhumation through the middle crust, west-directed stretching was accompanied by north–south folding. Late sinistral transpressional faulting in the middle to upper crust truncated the earlier folds and shear zones. Supplementary material: Complete 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data and a summary geological map of the Nordfjord region are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18460 .
    Print ISSN: 0016-7649
    Topics: Geosciences
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