Keywords:
Geology, Structural - Appalachian Mountains.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Consisting of papers that have appeared in International Geology Review, this book focuses on Middle American terranes in which tectonic processes for orogenic development are examined at various times from the late Mesoproterozoic at 1 Ga, through the Paleozoic and into the Cenozoic. Many papers relate the evolution of the Middle American terranes over the past billion years to global scale events. A second theme running through the book relates to the supercontinents, Rodinia and Pangea, the geometry of their amalgamation and breakup, and the processes responsible. The combination of respected contributors, expert editorial guidance, and coverage of current and emerging theories makes this book an essential resource.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (404 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781420073737
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=360008
DDC:
551.8/20972
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors -- Contributors -- Editors' Preface -- Middle American Terrance -- Terranes of Mexico Revisited: A 1.3 Billion Year Odyssey -- Oaxaquia Terrane -- Sedimentary Origin of Calcareous Intrusions in the ~1 Ga Oaxacan Complex, Southern Mexico: Tectonic Implications -- Geochronology and Geochemistry of the ~917 Ma, Calc-alkaline Etla Granitoid Pluton (Oaxaca, Southern Mexico): Evidence of Post-Grenvillian Subduction along the Northern Margin of Amazonia -- Geochemistry of the Tremadocian Tiñu Formation (Southern Mexico): Provenance in the Underlying ~1 Ga Oaxacan Complex on the Southern Margin of the Rheic Ocean -- Phanerozoic Structures in the Grenvillian Northern Oaxacan Complex, Southern Mexico: Result of Thick-Skinned Tectonics -- A Late Permian Tectonothermal Event in Grenville Crust of the Southern Maya Terrane: U-Pb Zircon Ages from the Chiapas Massif, Southeastern Mexico -- Mixteca Terrane -- Ordovician and Mesoproterozoic Zircons from the Tecomate Formation and Esperanza Granitoids, Acatlán Complex, Southern Mexico: Local Provenance in the Acatlán and Oaxacan Complexes -- Implications of Latest Pennsylvanian to Middle Permian Paleontological and U-Pb SHRIMP Data from the Tecomate Formation to Re-dating Tectonothermal Events in the Acatlán Complex, Southern Mexico -- Detrital Zircon Data from the Eastern Mixteca Terrane, Southern Mexico: Evidence for an Ordovician-Mississippian Continental Rise and a Permo-Triassic Clastic Wedge Adjacent to Oaxaquia -- North American Craton -- Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Francisco Gneiss: Triassic Continental Rift Tholeiites on the Mexican Margin of Pangea Metamorphosed and Exhumed in a Tertiary Core Complex -- Sierra Madre Terrane.
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Deformational History of the Granjeno Schist, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico: Constraints on the Closure of the Rheic Ocean? -- The Tuzancoa Formation: Evidence of an Early Permian Submarine Continental Arc in East-Central Mexico -- Chuacús Terrane -- Orogeny in Time and Space in the Mesoamerican Region and Appalachian-Variscan Connections -- Chortis Terrane -- Tectonic Implications of Alternative Cenozoic Reconstructions for Southern Mexico and the Chortis Block -- Potential Correlatives -- Cadomian and Early Paleozoic Magmatic Events: Insights from Zircon Morphology and Geochemical Signatures of I- and S-Type Granitoids (Saxo-Thuringia/Bohemian Massif/Central Europe) -- The Acadian Orogeny in the Northern Appalachians -- Episodic Volcanism in the Buck Creek Complex (Central British Columbia, Canada): A History of Magmatism and Mantle Evolution from the Jurassic to the Early Tertiary -- Orogenic Processes -- Buoyancy of the Oceanic Lithosphere and Subduction Initiation -- The Laramide Orogeny: What Were the Driving Forces? -- Do Supercontinents Turn Inside-in or Inside-out? -- Index.
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