The Sierra Nevada Foothills: Anatomy of a Subduction Zone Complex:

The Sierra Foothills was formed during the Mesozoic collision with the Paleozoic Shoo Fly Complex when a series of island arcs, and spreading ridge centers accreted and subducted beneath the continental margin of the Sierra Nevada during the Nevadan Orogeny. This book presents the regional geologic setting of the Sierra Nevada Foothills terrane offering tectonic models for oceanic plate-continental collisions followed by geological evidence collected from the New Hogan Reservoir for support...