Rocky Mountain Thrust Belt Geology And Resources
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Author | : Christopher J. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813711711 |
This volume emphasizes the interaction of the Cordilleran thrust belt and Rocky Mountain foreland in studies of regional structural geology, geophysics, and sedimentology from west-central Montana to Arizona. The volume outlines how the nature of the Rocky mountain foreland and its deformation affect the geometry of the Cordilleran thrust belt. Many of the structural and geophysical studies reported in this volume also address the question of which structures - forland or thrust belt - developed first in a specific region and how early formed structures influenced later ones. Several chapters address the nature and style of foreland development.
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Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Betty M. Miller |
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Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Arid regions |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks |
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Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Land titles |
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Author | : P. K. Link |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813711797 |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Geological Survey (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : Robert S. Hildebrand |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total 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.