Author: Julie A. Dumoulin
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813725062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Robert B. Blodgett
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724422
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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"Displaced or tectonostratigraphic terranes comprise a huge portion of real estate in the North American Cordillera. Terranes are discrete, fault-bound blocks of regional extent, with rocks and fossils that differ to a great extent from those of adjacent blocks. The allochthonous nature of most terranes, relative to adjacent craton, is well established. When mapped, they resemble a collage of mixed rock types, tectonic styles, metamorphism, and volcanic origins--each part resembling the pieces of a puzzle. Terrane studies remain integral to understanding the geological evolution of western North America. Since the initiation of the concept summarized in 1979 by the late David L. Jones, the significance of fossils and stratigraphy has been key to solving the puzzle. Chapters of this book written by experts in their field, provide a sense of the diversity of approaches in paleontology and stratigraphy. Contributions span geologic time from the Precambrian (Vendian) to Cretaceous and address over 20 Cordilleran terranes."--Publisher's website.

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Kenneth D. Ridgway
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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"The convergent margin of southern Alaska is considered one of the type areas for understanding the growth of continental margins through collisional tectonic processes. Collisional processes that formed this margin were responsible for multiple episodes of sedimentary basin development, subduction complex growth, magmatism, and deformation. Two main collisional episodes shaped this Mesozoic-Cenozoic continental margin. The first event was the Mesozoic collision of the allochthonous Wrangellia composite terrane. This event represents the largest addition of juvenile crust to western North America in the past 100 m.y. The second event is the ongoing collision of the Yakutat terrane along the southeastern margin of Alaska. This Cenozoic event has produced the highest coast mountain range on Earth (Saint Elias Mountains), the Wrangell continental arc, and sedimentary basins throughout southern Alaska. Active collisional processes continue to shape the southern margin of Alaska, mainly through crustal shortening and strike-slip deformation, large-magnitude earthquakes, and rapid uplift and exhumation of mountain belts and high sedimentation rates in adjacent sedimentary basins. This volume contains 24 articles that integrate new geophysical and geologic data, including many field-based studies, to better link the sedimentary, structural, geochemical, and magmatic processes that are important for understanding the development of collisional continental margins."--Publisher's website.

Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Aviva J. Sussman
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813723833
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: John P. Galloway
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ISBN: 9780607955613
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Robert M. Sullivan
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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Category : Fossils
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Category : Geological mapping
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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