The Cordilleran Orogen, conterminous U.S / edited by B.C. Burchfiel, P.W. Lipman, M.L. Zoback.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoBoulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1992.
Description1 online resource (ix, 724 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
Supplemental ContentGeoScienceWorld
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Other author/creatorBurchfiel, B. C., 1934-
Other author/creatorLipman, Peter W.
Other author/creatorZoback, Mary Lou C.
Other author/creatorDecade of North American Geology Project.
Other author/creatorGeological Society of America.
SeriesThe geology of North America ; v. G-3
Geology of North America ; v. G-3. ^A665769
Summary Six of the 17 chapters in this work comprise a series of time slices synthesizing the latest Proterozoic to the latest Devonian; late Paleozoic, early Mesozoic, Late Jurassic to early Cretaceous; late Cretaceous to early Eocene; and post-Laramide geologic and tectonic history. Ten topical chapters provide overviews of regional, extensional, strike-slip, and fold and thrust tectonics, magmatism, metamorphism, sedimentary assemblages, metallogenic evolution, ophiolites, and paleomagnetics.
General note"One of the synthesis volumes of the Decade of North American Geology Project series"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Spec. audience char. Specialized.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version : 9780813752174
ISBN9780813754550 (ebook) :

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