The north American cordilleran anatectic belt

JB Chapman, SE Runyon, JE Shields, BL Lawler… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The North American Cordilleran Anatectic Belt (CAB) is a~ 3,000 km long region in
the hinterland of the Cordillera that comprises numerous exposures of Late Cretaceous to …

Hit-and-run model for Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonism along the western margin of Laurentia

B Tikoff, BA Housen, JA Maxson, EM Nelson, S Trevino… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The North American Cordillera experienced major contractional deformation
during the Cretaceous–Paleogene, which is commonly attributed to normal subduction …

Magmatism, migrating topography, and the transition from Sevier shortening to Basin and Range extension, western United States

JEL Snee, EL Miller - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The paleogeographic evolution of the western US Great Basin from the Late Cretaceous to
the Cenozoic is critical to understanding how the North American Cordillera at this latitude …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

Provenance of early Paleogene strata in the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, USA): Implications for Laramide tectonism and basin-scale stratigraphic patterns

JL Welch, BZ Foreman, D Malone, J Craddock - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, USA) contains some of the most extensively
exposed and studied nonmarine early Paleogene strata in the world. Over a century of …

Deciphering the state of the lower crust and upper mantle with multi‐physics inversion

M Moorkamp - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The composition of the lower crust is a key factor in understanding tectonic activity and
deformation within the Earth. In particular, the presence or absence of melt or fluids has …

Timing of mid-crustal ductile extension in the northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada: Evidence from U/Pb zircon ages

J Lee, T Blackburn, S Johnston - Geosphere, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Metamorphic core complexes within the western US record a history of Cenozoic ductile and
brittle extensional deformation, metamorphism, magmatism, and exhumation within the …

Downhill from Austin and Ely to Las Vegas: U-Pb detrital zircon suites from the Eocene–Oligocene Titus Canyon Formation and associated strata, Death Valley …

EL Miller, ME Raftrey, JEL Snee - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In a reconnaissance investigation aimed at interrogating the changing topography and
paleogeography of the western United States prior to Basin and Range faulting, a …

The “death” of the Sevier-Laramide orogen: Gravitational collapse of the crust or something else?

A Konstantinou - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Basin and Range Province is considered to be one of the most iconic
continental rift provinces that postdates a prolonged orogeny. Here, I present evidence that …

Timing and structural evolution of the Sevier thrust belt, western Wyoming

DH Malone, JP Craddock, A Konstantinou - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The results of new detrital zircon analyses of 15 (n= 1334) Sevier belt synorogenic (Jurassic–
Eocene) conglomerates combined with U-Pb zircon ages from the literature (n= 2638) …