Emplacement and deformation of granitoids during volcanic arc construction in the Foothills terrane, central Sierra Nevada, California

Postemplacement deformation of plutons and their metasedimentary host, Mt Dromedary area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

“…5). All these observations are consistent with the Glee Intrusives having been deformed after intrusion, rather than during intrusion (Castro 1987;Mandal & Chakraborty 1991;Paterson et al 1991;Cox 1993).…”

“…In these studies, relatively little attention has been paid to structures formed in and around plutons by deformation after the plutons have been emplaced. Postplutonic deformation is a common phenomenon, as synkinematic plutonism is widespread (Paterson et al 1991). All plutons emplaced early in the intrusive and deformational history of an orogen must have undergone some degree of postplutonic deformation due to regional strain or emplacement of younger plutons nearby.…”

Exhumation, strain localization, and emplacement of granitoids along the western part of the Central Bohemian shear zone (Bohemian Massif)

“…Examples include syntectonic plutons related to compressional (Ingram and Hutton 1994;Davidson et al 1992;Paterson et al 1991;Benn et al 1997), extensional (Hutton et al 1990; Aranguren and Tubía 1992) or different strike-slip settings (e.g. Guineberteau et al 1987;Morand 1992;Tikoff and Teyssier 1992).…”

Downward host rock transport and the formation of rim monoclines during the emplacement of Cordilleran batholiths

“…Less commonly we see evidence for the incremental growth of plutons by injection of subhorizontal layering (e.g., Paterson et al 1991;Haeussler & Paterson 1993;Weibe 1993;Miller & Miller 2002); (2) subsequent mafic and felsic pulses evolve to lower aspect ratio elliptical or irregular shapes; (3) younger pulses often intrude through and remove or incorporate older pulses indicating that plutons/batholiths grow vertically and laterally; (3) the final shapes of these plutons are roughly elliptical in map view, although in detail plutonic margins are often highly irregular; (4) the vertical dimensions of these plutons/batholiths remain highly controversial and may range from as little as a few km to >25 km. However, in either case, horizontal dimensions are often greater than vertical, thus making them irregular and disk-shaped in 3-D.…”

“…One reason for this is the myriad of pluton shapes and sizes, ranging from thin dikes and sills to large, vertically extensive bodies (Buddington 1959;McCaffrey & Petford 1997;Cruden 1998, Miller & Paterson 1999. Another is the huge variation in both the internal and hostrock characteristics of plutonic systems and in their tectonic setting (Pitcher 1979;Paterson et al 1991). It is thus improbable that any single emplacement mechanism is appropriate for all systems or even for a single system throughout its ascent and emplacement history (Buddington 1959;Paterson & Fowler 1993;Paterson et al 1996;McNulty et al 2000).…”