Backbone of the Americas : shallow subduction, plateau uplift, and ridge and terrane collision / edited by Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, Víctor A. Ramos, William R. Dickinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kay, Suzanne Mahlburg, 1947-

Ramos, Víctor A.

Dickinson, William R.

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Memoir (Geological Society of America) ; 204.

Memoir ; 204

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orogeny--America.

Orogeny.

Geology, Structural--America.

Geology, Structural.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2009.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

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Summary:

"The American Cordilleras form a continuous orogen that extends for 12,500 km along the eastern flank of the Pacific Ocean from Arctic to Antarctic latitudes as an integral part of the circum-Pacific orogenic belt. Following two summary chapters on the overall anatomy and evolution of North and South American segments of the orogenic system, this volume includes ten seminal chapters dealing with salient aspects of the key geodynamic processes that have accompanied Cordilleran geotectonic evolution: forearc terrane accretion, arc magmatism, shallow subduction, and backarc intracontinental deformation. The papers in this volume were selected from those presented at the 2006 Backbone of the Americas Meeting, which was sponsored jointly by multiple North and South American geological societies in Mendoza, Argentina."--Pub. desc.

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 [and others]

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 [and others]

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 [and others].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Backbone of the Americas.

OCLC:

681735205

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