The Cordilleran Orogen, Conterminous U.S.
Title | The Cordilleran Orogen, Conterminous U.S. PDF eBook |
Author | B. C. Burchfiel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
The Cordilleran Miogeosyncline in North America
Title | The Cordilleran Miogeosyncline in North America PDF eBook |
Author | Henry V. Lyatsky |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2006-04-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3540486933 |
Steep crustal-scale faults, having their origins in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic and trending NE-SW, which define the fundamental block lithospheric structure of the North American craton, are seen from geological and geophysical evidence to continue far into the interior of the Late Proterozoic-Phanerozoic Canadian Cordilleran mobile megabelt. This suggests that variously reworked ex-cratonic basement blocks underlie much of the Cordillera. The western edge of the modern craton is probably near the Rocky Mountain-Omineca belt boundary; the Rocky Mountain fold-and-thrust belt on the east side of the Cordillera is evidently rootless and overlies the undisturbed cratonic basement. Phanerozoic differences between the Cordilleran tectonic belts, resulting from a long, dissimilar, multi-cycle history of waxing and waning orogenesis apparent from the rock record, lie chiefly in the degree of indigenous tectonic remobilization and reworking of the ancient crust.
Precambrian: Conterminous U.S.
Title | Precambrian: Conterminous U.S. PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Reed, Jr. |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 752 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 081375447X |
This wide-ranging discussion of Precambrian rocks includes contributions from a diverse array of authors actively engaged in investigations of various aspects of U.S. Precambrian geology. Summary discussions by the editors of the five major chapters place these contributions in a logical regional framework.
Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous-Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera?
Title | Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous-Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera? PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Hildebrand |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813724570 |
Within the Sonora segment to the south, break-off magmatism was also prevalent. Both the Canadian and Sonoran segments have abundant porphyry copper mineralization temporally and spatially associated with the break-off magmas, which suggests a genetic link between slab failure and porphyry copper mineralization. By 53 Ma, eastwardly dipping subduction of Pacific Ocean crust was generating arc magmatism on the amalgamated Cordilleran collision zone in both the Canadian and Sonoran segments. Oceanic schists, such as the Orocopia-Pelona-Rand, were formed in the ocean basin west of Rubia and accreted during initiation of the new easterly dipping subduction zone. A major transform fault, called the Phoenix fault, connects the Sevier fold-thrust belt at the California-Nevada border with that in eastern Mexico and separates the Great Basin and Sonoran segments. It juxtaposes the Sierra-Mojave-Sonora block alongside the Transition Zone of the Colorado Plateau. Cordilleran events affected the subsequent development of western North America. For example, the structural Basin and Range Province appears to coincide with the region where exotic allochthons sit atop North American crust in both the Great Basin and Sonoran segments. Also, within the triangular Columbia embayment, large segments of Rubia appear to have escaped laterally during the Cordilleran orogeny to create a lithospheric "hole" that was later filled by basalt of the Columbia River and Modoc plateaux.
Mesozoic Assembly of the North American Cordillera
Title | Mesozoic Assembly of the North American Cordillera PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Hildebrand |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813724953 |
"In this well-illustrated book, Hildebrand expands upon his model for the development of the North American Cordillera detailed in Special paper 457. Starting with an overview of Cordilleran geology he goes on to provide an in depth look at how the Rubian ribbon continent was assembled. He integrates the complex geology of the Cordillera into an actualistic model involving arc magmatism, arc-continent collision, slab failure magmatism, and transcurrent motion in both Rubia and the western North American margin. While much of the focus is on the assembly of the Rubian ribbon continent, Hildebrand explores its interactions with North America during the Sevier and Laramide events and concludes that North America was the lower plate in both"--Provided by publisher.
Geological Studies in the Klamath Mountains Province, California and Oregon
Title | Geological Studies in the Klamath Mountains Province, California and Oregon PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur W. Snoke |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813724104 |
Accompanying CD-ROM includes additional images and maps.
Geoinformatics
Title | Geoinformatics PDF eBook |
Author | G. Randy Keller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2011-05-19 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1139502638 |
Advanced information technology infrastructure is increasingly being employed in the Earth sciences to provide researchers with efficient access to massive central databases and to integrate diversely formatted information from a variety of sources. These geoinformatics initiatives enable manipulation, modeling and visualization of data in a consistent way, and are helping to develop integrated Earth models at various scales, and from the near surface to the deep interior. This book uses a series of case studies to demonstrate computer and database use across the geosciences. Chapters are thematically grouped into sections that cover data collection and management; modeling and community computational codes; visualization and data representation; knowledge management and data integration; and web services and scientific workflows. Geoinformatics is a fascinating and accessible introduction to this emerging field for readers across the solid Earth sciences and an invaluable reference for researchers interested in initiating new cyberinfrastructure projects of their own.