Backbone of the Americas : shallow subduction, plateau uplift, and ridge and terrane collision /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
Geological Society of America,
2009.
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| Series: | Memoir (Geological Society of America) ;
204. |
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Table of Contents:
- Anatomy and global context of the North American Cordillera / William R. Dickinson
- Anatomy and global context of the Andes : main geologic features and the Andean orogenic cycle / Victor A. Ramos
- Neogene collision and deformation of convergent margins along the backbone of the Americas / R. von Huene and C.R. Ranero
- Relation of flat subduction to magmatism and deformation in the western United States / Eugene Humphreys
- Structural geologic evolution of the Colorado Plateau / George H. Davis and Alex P. Bump
- Three-dimensional kinematics of Laramide, basement-involved Rocky Mountain deformation, USA : insights from minor faults and GIS-enhanced structure maps / Eric A. Erslev and Nicole V. Koenig
- Cretaceous-Eocene magmatism and Laramide deformation in southwestern Mexico : no role for terrane accretion / Michelangelo Martini ... [et al.]
- Geochemical evolution of igneous rocks and changing magma sources during the formation and closure of the Central American land bridge of Panama / Gerhard Wörner, Russell S. Harmon and Wencke Wegner
- Mode and timing of terrane accretion in the forearc of the Andes in Ecuador / Cristian Vallejo ... [et al.]
- Influence of the subduction on the Carnegie volcanic ridge on Ecuadorian geology : reality and fiction / François Michaud, Cesar Witt and Jean-Yves Royer
- Shallowing and steepening subduction zones, continental lithospheric loss, magmatism, and crustal flow under the Central Andean Altiplano-Puna Plateau / Suzanne Mahlburg Kay and Beatriz L. Coira
- Flat-slab subduction and crustal models for the seismically active Sierras Pampeanas region of Argentina / Patricia Alvarado ... [et al.].