Reassessing metamorphic core complexes in the North American Cordillera

AV Zuza, G Jepson, W Cao - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Continental metamorphic core complexes (MCCs) are widely distributed on Earth, primarily
exposed at convergent plate margins. These structural systems involve the exhumation of …

Orogenic recycling of detrital zircons characterizes age distributions of North American Cordilleran strata

TM Schwartz, RK Schwartz, AL Weislogel - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Detrital zircon (DZ) analysis has become the standard tool for source‐to‐sink sediment
routing studies at many spatial and temporal scales. In North American source‐to‐sink …

Stratigraphic and geochronologic investigation of the Muddy Creek Basin: Implications for the Eocene tectonic evolution of southwest Montana, USA

HE Thoresen, EJ Cassel, ME Smith… - Geological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentary basins record crustal-scale tectonic processes related to the construction and
demise of orogenic belts, making them an invaluable archive for the reconstruction of the …

Paleogene topographic and climatic evolution of the Northern Rocky Mountains from integrated sedimentary and isotopic data

TM Schwartz, K Methner, A Mulch… - GSA …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
There is ongoing debate regarding the presence, timing, magnitude, and extent of high-
elevation areas in the North American Cordillera during Late Cretaceous and Paleogene …

Paleo-Bell River captures the Great Basin

JW Sears - Developments in Earth Surface Processes, 2024 - Elsevier
The paleo-Missouri River (Fig. 4.1) was a small headwaters reach of the Paleo-Bell River
basin between about 59 and 18 million years ago (Fig. 4.2 A and B). About 18 million years …

[PDF][PDF] Priabonian, late Eocene chronostratigraphy, depositional environment, and paleosol-trace fossil associations, Pipestone Springs, southwest Montana, USA

DL Hanneman, D Lofgren, ST Hasiotis… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2022 - bibliotekanauki.pl
Sanidine 40Ar/39Ar ages of lapilli tuffs and the mammalian fauna of Pipestone Springs
strata provide a high-resolution chronostratigraphy for upper Eocene (Priabonian) rock units …

Evolution of the Early-Late Cretaceous foreland basin system in southwestern Montana based on U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology

JA Rosenblume - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Early to Late Cretaceous foreland basin strata in southwestern Montana contain a
record of mountain building events in the Idaho-Montana sector of the North American …

Early Oligocene surface uplift in southwestern Montana during the north American cordilleran extension

L Li, M Fan, L Zhu - Tectonics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The topographic history of the North American Cordillera holds the key to understanding the
tectonic and geodynamic processes of orogenesis and post‐orogenic collapse. In …

Cenozoic sediment provenance in the northern Great Plains corresponds to four episodes of tectonic and magmatic events in the central North American Cordillera

L Li, M Fan - Tectonics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Detrital zircon U‐Pb provenance in the northern Great Plains reveals histories of drainage
reorganization of the paleo‐Missouri River in response to Cenozoic tectonic and magmatic …

Plate convergence, consumption, collision, coupling, capture, and formation of mantle waves—Linkages to global orogenesis and epeirogeny

TH Anderson - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Widespread episodes of major contractional orogenesis correlate commonly with ages of
high-pressure eclogitic rocks formed during bottom-driven, induced subduction of crustal …