Heat and Detachment in Core-Complex Extension
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It is proposed here that the Miocene to Recent structural and volcanic features of the Basin and Range Province can be explained by a single thermotectonic process acting through time. This process consists of a thermal pulse resulting in a high-temperature regime that includes a steep thermal front moving first up toward the topographic surface, then down owing to cooling induced by a combination of convection and conduction. Within the front is a condition defining a critical surface that separates brittle from ductile behavior, and is marked by a nearly horizonal detachment fault. The most prominent and structurally highest position of the detachment results from interaction between the critical surface and a hydrothermal system near the topographic surface. These various features can be superposed on older ones through thermal remobilization or structural reactivation.
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