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- Title: Thrust Tectonics
- Author: K. R. McClay
- Publisher: Springer-Science+Business Media
- Pages: 456
K.R. McClay Department of Geology, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, Egham, Surrey, England TW20 OEX. Since the first Thrust and Nappe Tectonics Conference in London in 1979 (McClay & Price 1981), and the Toulouse Meeting on Thrusting and deformation in 1984 (Platt et al. 1986) there have been considerable advances in the study of thrust systems incorporating new field observations, conceptual models, mechanical models, analogue and numerical simulations, together with geophysical studies of thrust belts. Thrust Tectonics 1990 was an International Conference convened by the editor and held at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, Egham Surrey, from April 4th until April 7th 1990.
The thirty six papers presented in this volume represent a distillation of the material presented at the conference and are grouped into thematic sections that follow the main topics of discussion at the meeting. To an extent the grouping of papers into specific thematic sets is somewhat arbitrary as there are many common linkages between the various sections. In particular many papers focus upon both the geometries of thrust systems and their kinematic evolution – a recurring theme throughout the volume. Space limitations prevented publication of all of the papers presented at the meeting but it is hoped that this volume will provide the reader with an appreciation of the current research themes and concepts of thrust systems.
Field based research, however, is the ultimate test of the theoretical, conceptual, numerical and analogue models. It is clear that the better understanding of thrust belts – for example that of the Canadian Rocky Mountains (e.g. Price 1981; Evenchick 1991, this volume; Brown et al. 1991, this volume) and of the Pyrenees (e.g. Munoz 1991, this volume; Puigdefabregas et al. 1991, this volume), stems from detailed fieldwork that integrates structural geology, stratigraphy, sedimentology and geophysical data. Future research on thrust tectonics will still need to be firmly based upon multidisciplinary field studies if progress is to be made in the understanding of the geometries, kinematics and mechanics of thrust systems.