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The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada
Author | : Andrew Miall |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2008-12-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0080929362 |
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 America's 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. This followed by a set of fifteen regional syntheses of the principal tectonic regions of the United States and Canada, focusing on the stratigraphic and tectonic history of the major sedimentary basins. Most of these chapters have been contributed by specialists, drawing on their own research, and providing interpretive summaries of a type not previously attempted. - Up-to-date synthesis of the sedimentary/tectonic history of the major areas of the United States and Canada - Up-to-date references - Many new color maps
Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates
Author | : Ana MarĂa Alonso-Zarza |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813724163 |
"This volume presents current understanding of the mechanisms and environments of the formation of calcretes and palustrine carbonates. Through a series of specific field examples, papers in this volume illustrate the wide variety of potential applications of these types of deposits. The papers presented here cover a wide array of ages and environmental settings of calcrete and palustrine deposition and include many interesting applications, such as the climatic and geomorphic controls on calcrete formation, possible modern analogues for palustrine carbonates, the interplay between palustrine, pedogenic, and diagenetic processes, the utility of radio-isotopic methods for dating pedogenic carbonates, applications to understanding landscape evolution, and reconstruction of diagenetic sequences. The result is a state-of-the-art book on these deposits so common in the geological record and in recent environments."--Publisher's website.
Cenozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region
Author | : SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). Rocky Mountain Section |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation
Author | : John R. Foster |
Publisher | : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Extreme Depositional Environments
Author | : Marjorie A. Chan |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780813723709 |
Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems
Author | : Spencer G. Lucas |
Publisher | : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Dinosaurs |
ISBN | : |
Paleontological Survey of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Garfield and Kane Counties, Utah
Author | : John Russell Foster |
Publisher | : Utah Geological Survey |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1557916535 |
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument contains abundant fossil material in most formations within its borders. These formations range in age from Permian to Cretaceous. More than 800 individual fossil localities are known so far, and almost all areas of the monument that were examined contain at least some fossil material. Important new findings of this survey include: several partial dinosaur skeletons in the Kaiparowits Formation; a ceratopsian skull in the Wahweap Formation; the previously unreported presence of many ammonoid and bivalve genera in the monument in the Dakota, Tropic, and Straight Cliffs Formations; the first fossils of any kind from the Entrada Sandstone within the monument, including a dinosaur tracksite containing more than 250 tracks of at least 30 individuals; previously unrecognized sites and abundances of vertebrate ichnogenera in the Navajo, Kayenta, Moenave, and Chinle Formations; the first ichnofossil material from the Wingate Sandstone in the monument; and a previously unreported sponge genus from the Kaibab Limestone. The Cretaceous rocks exposed within the monument contain one of the best and most continuous records of Late Cretaceous terrestrial life in the world. Research on these strata is still in its earliest stages.
Tectonosedimentary Relations of Pennsylvanian to Jurassic Strata on the Colorado Plateau
Author | : William R. Dickinson |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2018-01-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 081372533X |
"Following this discovery and further detrital-zircon studies of Mesozoic strata on the Colorado Plateau, Dr. Dickinson began preparing this volume in order to identify key aspects of the sedimentary and tectonic history of Mesozoic strata of the Colorado Plateau and directly adjacent areas. He divided the strata into seven depositional systems"--
Interior Western United States
Author | : Joel L. Pederson |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 081370006X |