Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

As zircon U-Pb geochronology has become a leading method in sediment provenance
studies and basin analysis over the past 20 years, the volume of detrital zircon data made …

Siletzia is a basaltic Paleocene and Eocene large igneous province in coastal Oregon,
Washington, and southern Vancouver Island that was accreted to North America in the early …

In continental-margin subduction zones, basalt magmas spawned in the mantle interact with
the crust to produce a broad spectrum of volcanic arc associations. A distinct style of very …

Herein we present oxygen isotope records from Cretaceous to Recent terrestrial sediments
in the western North American Cordillera. The purpose of this analysis is to use oxygen …

The western Nevada volcanic field is the western third of a belt of calderas through Nevada
and western Utah. Twenty-three calderas and their caldera-forming tuffs are reasonably well …

The distribution of Cenozoic ash-flow tuffs in the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada of
eastern California (United States) demonstrates that the region, commonly referred to as the …

Slab rollback processes alter the intraplate force balance and buoyancy of the overriding
plate, driving surface uplift or extension. From ca. 55–24 Ma, Farallon slab rollback …

Records of past topography connect Earth's deep interior to the surface, reflecting the
distribution of heat and mass, past crustal structure, and plate interactions. Many tectonic …

Abstract Displacement of the Miocene Cascade volcanic arc (northwestern North America)
from the active arc is in the same sense and at nearly the same rate as the present clockwise …