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 …

Late Miocene (10.0∼ 6.0 Ma) rapid exhumation of the Chinese South Tianshan: Implications for the timing of aridification in the Tarim Basin

J Chang, S Glorie, N Qiu, K Min… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cenozoic exhumation in the Tianshan is controlled by a complex interaction between
tectonics and climate. However, the timing and magnitude of exhumation of the Tianshan …

Spatially variable increase in rock uplift in the northern US Cordillera recorded in the distribution of river knickpoints and incision depths

NA Mitchell, BJ Yanites - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape evolution is driven by factors like tectonics and climate, and unraveling such
factors can reveal the history recorded in landscape morphology. The northern US …

Cenozoic deformation of the Kalpin fold-and-thrust belt, southern Chinese Tian Shan: New insights from low-T thermochronology and sandbox modeling

J Chang, D Li, K Min, N Qiu, Y Xiao, H Wu, N Liu - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
The Kalpin fold-and-thrust belt (FTB) was active during the Cenozoic and accommodated
crustal shortening between the Tian Shan and Tarim Basin. To constrain the timing of …

[PDF][PDF] Stratigraphic evolution of the Neoproterozoic Callison Lake Formation: Linking the break-up of Rodinia to the Islay carbon isotope excursion

JV Strauss, FA MacDonald, GP Halverson… - American Journal of …, 2015 - ajsonline.org
The∼ 780 to 540 Ma Windermere Supergroup of western North America records the
protracted development of the western Laurentian passive margin and provides insights into …

Late Miocene rejuvenation of central Idaho landscape evolution: A case for surface processes driven by plume-lithosphere interaction

JE Larimer, BJ Yanites, W Phillips… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We utilized field measurements of erosion rates and topographic analyses to constrain the
timing and magnitude of landscape rejuvenation on the western flank of the Rocky …

U-Pb zircon ages of the Wildhorse gneiss, Pioneer Mountains, south-central Idaho, and tectonic implications

PK Link, KM Autenrieth-Durk, A Cameron… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The gneiss complex of Wildhorse Creek (Wildhorse gneiss) forms the central component of
the lowest structural plate in the Pioneer metamorphic core complex of south-central Idaho …

Evidence for a long‐lived accommodation/transfer zone beneath the Snake River Plain: A possible influence on Neogene magmatism?

A Konstantinou, E Miller - Tectonics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Geochronologic data compiled from 12 metamorphic core complexes and their flanking
regions outline important differences in tectonic and magmatic histories north and south of …

Middle Miocene to Holocene tectonics, basin evolution, and paleogeography along the southern margin of the Snake River Plain in the Knoll Mountain–Ruby–East …

P Camilleri, J Deibert, M Perkins - Geosphere, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New geologic mapping and tephrochronologic assessment of strata in extensional basins
surrounding Knoll Mountain (Nevada, USA) reveal a geologic history linked to tectonic …

[HTML][HTML] Eocene extension and meteoric fluid flow in the Wildhorse detachment, Pioneer metamorphic core complex, Idaho

RR McFadden, A Mulch, C Teyssier… - Lithosphere, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The relationship between microstructure and fluid flow traced by hydrogen isotope ratios
(δD) is examined within the Wildhorse detachment system of the Pioneer metamorphic core …