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Middle American Terranes, Potential Correlatives, and Orogenic Processes (Hardcover, New)
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Middle American Terranes, Potential Correlatives, and Orogenic Processes (Hardcover, New)
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Consisting of papers that have appeared recently in International
Geology Review, Middle American Terranes, Potential Correlatives,
and Orogenic Processes focuses on Middle American terranes in which
tectonic processes, including flat-slab subduction, for orogenic
development are examined at various times since the late
Mesoproterozoic: at 1 Ga, through the Paleozoic, and into the
Cenozoic. Many papers relate the evolution of the Middle American
terranes over the past billion years to global scale events, and a
second theme running through the book relates to the
supercontinents, Rodinia and Pangea, the geometry of their
amalgamation and breakup, and the processes responsible. Highlights
include: * An update on the geographic record, tectonic setting,
and provenance of these terranes * Documentation of allocthonous
nature and position peripheral to Amazonia of the ~1 Ga basement of
southern Mexico * Data demonstrating that the basement rocks were
involved in several Phanerozoic tectonic events * An examination of
new evidence of a Late Paleozoic event associated with the
amalgamation of Pangea overprinting the ~1 Ga basement and the
Paleozoic units lying chiefly to the west and south of it * An
exploration of the following potential correlatives: (1) events in
Europe on the northern margin of Gondwana; (2) the Late
Silurian-Devonian Acadian orogeny in the Appalachian, which is
inferred to have resulted from flat-slab subduction related to
overriding a plume; and (3) Mesozoic-Cenozoic events along the
western margin of Laurentia * A discussion of possible mechanisms
for the initiation of orogeny, flat-slab subduction in the Laramide
orogeny, and hypotheses relating to the amalgamation and breakup of
supercontine
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