Whence the mountains? : inquiries into the evolution of orogenic systems : a volume in honor of Raymond A. Price / edited by James. W. Sears, Tekla A. Harms, and Carol A. Evenchick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Price, Raymond A.

Sears, James W.

Harms, Tekla A.

Evenchick, C. A.

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 433.

Special paper ; 433

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orogeny.

Geology, Structural.

Plate tectonics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 417 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Whence the mountains?

the contributions of Raymond A. Price / J.W. Sears, T.A. Harms, and C.A. Evenchick

Driving mechanism and 3-D circulation of plate tectonics / W.B. Hamilton

Petrotectonics of ultrahigh-pressure crustal and upper-mantle rocks

implications for Phanerozoic collisional orogens / W.G. Ernst, B.R. Hacker, and J.G. Liou

How much strain can continental crust accommodate without developing obvious through-going faults? / B.C. Burchfiel [and others]

Mechanics of thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belts : insights from numerical models / G.S. Stockmal [and others]

Lithospheric-scale structures across the Alaskan and Canadian Cordillera : comparisons and tectonic applications / P.T.C. Hammer and R.M. Clowes

Synthesis of the Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the central and southeastern Canadian Cordillera : exploring links across the orogen / C.A. Evenchick [and others]

Belt-Purcell Basin : keystone of the Rocky Mountain fold-and-thrust belt, United States and Canada / J.W. Sears

Thermochronometric reconstruction of the prethrust paleogeothermal gradient and initial thickness of the Lewis thrust sheet, southeastern Canadian Cordillera foreland belt / S. Feinstein [and others]

Reconstructing the Snake River-Hoback River Canyon section of the Wyoming thrust belt through direct dating of clay-rich fault rocks / J.G. Solum and B.A. van der Pluijm

Reinterpretation of fractures at Swift Reservoir, Rocky Mountain thrust front, Montana : passage of a Jurassic forebulge? / E.M.G. Ward and J.W. Sears

Structural, metamorphic, and geochronologic constraints on the origin of the Clearwater core complex, northern Idaho / P.T. Doughty [and others]

Character of rigid boundaries and internal deformation of the southern Appalachian foreland fold-thrust belt / R.D. Hatcher Jr., P.J. Lemiszki, and J.B. Whisner

Balancing tectonic shortening in contrasting deformation styles through a mechanically heterogeneous stratigraphic succession / W.A. Thomas

Links among Carolinia, Avalonia, and Ganderia in the Appalachian peri-Gondwanan realm / J.P. Hibbard, C.R. van Staal, and B.V. Miller

Cat Square basin, Catskill clastic wedge : Silurian-Devonian orogenic events in the central Appalachians and the crystalline southern Appalachians / A.J. Dennis

Stratigraphic unit converted to fault rocks in the Northland Allochthon of New Zealand : response of a siliceous claystone to obduction / K.B. Spörli

Strain rate in Paleozoic thrust sheets, the western Lachlan Orogen, Australia : strain analysis and fabric geochronology / D.A. Foster and D.R. Gray

Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions (part 2) : wedge tectonics in southern Qaidam basin and the eastern Kunlun range / A. Yin [and others]

Defining the eastern boundary of the Northern Asian craton from structural and subsidence history studies of the Verkhoyansk fold-and-thrust belt / A.K. Khudoley and A.V. Prokopiev.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9780813724331

0813724333

OCLC:

213301030

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.