Dear Craig,
There is also the other example described in the following paper:
Valentine, G. A., et al. (2006), Emplacement of shallow dikes and sills
beneath a small basaltic volcanic center - The role of pre-existing
structure (Paiute Ridge, southern Nevada, USA), Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett., 246(3-4), 217-230.
Regards,
Olivier
On 1/16/12 8:33 PM, Romain Tartese wrote:
> Dear Craig,
>
> You'll also find nice examples of syntectonic granites emplaced into
> flat-lying normal shear zone along the coast, in the Southern part of
> the Variscan Armorican Massif.
> You can have a look for example at:
>
> * Gapais, D., Lagarde, J.-L., Le Corre, C., Audren, C., Jégouzo, P.,
> Casas Sainz, A., van den Driessche, J., 1993. The Quiberon shear
> zone : evidence for Carboniferous extension in the Variscan belt
> of South Brittany (France) . Comptes Rendus Académie des Sciences
> de Paris 316, 1123–1129.
> * Turrillot P., Augier, R., Faure, M., 2011. The
> top-to-the-southeast Sarzeau shear zone and its place in the
> late-orogenic extensional tectonics of southern Armorica. Bulletin
> de la Société Géologique de France 180, 247-261.
> * Turrillot P., Augier, R., Monié, P., Faure, M., 2011. Late
> orogenic exhumation of the Variscan high-grade units (South
> Armorican Domain, western France), combined structural and ^40
> Ar/^39 Ar constraints. Tectonics 30, doi:10.1029/2010TC002788 .
>
> Regards
> Romain
>
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