Insights from North America's failed Midcontinent Rift into the evolution of continental rifts and passive continental margins

S Stein, CA Stein, R Elling, J Kley, GR Keller… - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Continental rifts evolve along two possible paths. In one, a rift successfully evolves into
seafloor spreading, leaving the rift structures buried beneath thick sedimentary and volcanic …

Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea

JP Craddock, DH Malone, R Porter, J Compton… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Proterozoic Grenville orogeny (~ 1300–980 Ma) reactivated the Archean-
hosted Kapuskasing suture in Laurentia which then propagated west and south initiating the …

Final inversion of the Midcontinent Rift during the Rigolet Phase of the Grenvillian Orogeny

EB Hodgin, NL Swanson-Hysell, JM DeGraff… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Despite being a prominent continental-scale feature, the late Mesoproterozoic North
American Midcontinent Rift did not result in the break-up of Laurentia, and subsequently …

Zircon provenance data record the lateral extent of pancontinental, early Neoproterozoic rivers and erosional unroofing history of the Grenville orogen

RH Rainbird, NM Rayner, T Hadlari… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present detrital zircon U-Pb data from mainly fluvial sandstones of the Mackenzie
Mountains Supergroup, Yukon (four samples), and the Shaler Supergroup, Northwest …

Provenance evolution during progressive rifting and hyperextension using bedrock and detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, Mauléon Basin, western Pyrenees

NR Hart, DF Stockli, NW Hayman - Geosphere, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The responses of sedimentary systems to rifting at continental margins are three-
dimensional and involve the mixing of various sediment sources through tectonic drivers …

The syn-orogenic sedimentary record of the Grenville Orogeny in southwest Laurentia

JA Mulder, KE Karlstrom, K Fletcher, MT Heizler… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
Late Mesoproterozoic sedimentary sequences in southwest Laurentia range in age from
1340 to 1035 Ma and record regionally extensive intracratonic sedimentation before and …

[HTML][HTML] Lower–Middle Pennsylvanian strata in the North American midcontinent record the interplay between erosional unroofing of the Appalachians and eustatic …

JK Kissock, ES Finzel, DH Malone… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Morrowan, Atokan, and Desmoinesian (Lower–Middle Pennsylvanian) clastic strata
in the Forest City (Iowa, northwest Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and Kansas) and Illinois …

The end of Midcontinent Rift magmatism and the paleogeography of Laurentia

LM Fairchild, NL Swanson-Hysell… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Paleomagnetism of the North American Midcontinent Rift provides a robust
paleogeographic record of Laurentia (cratonic North America) from ca. 1110 to 1070 Ma …

Visualizing the sedimentary response through the orogenic cycle: A multidimensional scaling approach

CJ Spencer, CL Kirkland - Lithosphere, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Changing patterns in detrital provenance through time have the ability to resolve salient
features of an orogenic cycle. Such changes in the age spectrum of detrital minerals may be …

Maximum depositional age of the Neoproterozoic Jacobsville Sandstone, Michigan: Implications for the evolution of the Midcontinent Rift

DH Malone, CA Stein, JP Craddock, J Kley… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A crucial constraint on the evolution of the ca. 1100 Ma Midcontinent Rift (MCR) in North
America comes from the Jacobsville Sandstone, Bayfield Group, and other equivalent …