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sedimentary basins of the United States and Canada
In recent years there have been rapid strides in our understanding of plate-tectonic processes, many developments in methods of basin analysis, and the accumulation of much new surface and subsurface geological and geophysical data. Projects such as COCORP (in the United States) and Lithoprobe (in Canada) have provided essential insights into the deep crustal structure of the continent. Synthesis of all the available information about North America₂s geological regions has not been attempted systematically since the "Decade of North American Geology" project undertaken by the Geological Society of America and the Geological Survey of Canada nearly twenty years ago. The book commences with a summary of the Phanerozoic geological history of the United States and Canada, illustrated with a suite of new paleogeographic maps, and tying in each of the subsequent regional chapters by the inclusion of numerous cross-references.
The Phanerozoic tectonic and sedimentary evolution of North America / Andrew D. Miall and Ronald C. Blakey -- Phanerozoic evolution of the sedimentary cover of the North American craton / Peter M. Burgess -- Appalachian foreland basin of Canada / Denis Lavoie -- Appalachian foreland basin in eastern United States / Frank R. Ettensohn -- The Paleozoic western craton margin / Andrew D. Miall -- The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada : basin creation and destruction in the collisional zone of Pangea / Martin R. Gibling ... [et al.] -- Pennsylvanian-Jurassic sedimentary basins of the Colorado Plateau and southern Rocky Mountains / Ronald C. Blakey -- The southern midcontinent, Permian basin, and Ouachitas / Andrew D. Miall -- The Western Interior basin / Andrew D. Miall ... [et al.] -- Cordilleran sedimentary basins of western Canada record 180 million years of terrane accretion / Brian D. Ricketts -- Subduction-related sedimentary basins of the USA cordillera / Raymond V. Ingersoll -- Laramide sedimentary basins / Timothy F. Lawton -- Sverdrup Basin / Ashton Embry and Benoit Beauchamp -- The Atlantic margin basins of North America / Andrew D. Miall, Hugh R. Balkwill and Jock McCracken -- Depositional evolution of the Gulf of Mexico sedimentary basin / William E. Galloway -- Geology of the late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Canada / Jim Dixon ... [et al.] -- Postscript : What have we learned and where do we go from here? / Andrew D. Miall.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
132623:132743 Elsevier Science & Technology