The Basin and Range Province as a composite extensional domain

WR Dickinson - International Geology Review, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The Basin and Range province is a composite Cenozoic taphrogen with a present
configuration and internal geometry derived from superimposed multiple phases of …

Nitrogen isotopes reveal independent origins of N2-fixing symbiosis in extant cycad lineages

MA Kipp, EE Stüeken, CAE Strömberg… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Cycads are ancient seed plants (gymnosperms) that emerged by the early Permian.
Although they were common understory flora and food for dinosaurs in the Mesozoic, their …

Crust and lithosphere structure of the northwestern US with ambient noise tomography: Terrane accretion and Cascade arc development

H Gao, ED Humphreys, H Yao… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
To address the tectonic and magmatic modifications of the Pacific Northwest lithosphere,
including transformation of the Farallon oceanic terrane “Siletzia” into continent, we study …

[HTML][HTML] Eocene dike orientations across the Washington Cascades in response to a major strike-slip faulting episode and ridge-trench interaction

RB Miller, KI Bryant, B Doran, MP Eddy… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The northern Cascade Mountains in Washington (USA) preserve an exceptional
shallow to mid-crustal record of Eocene transtension marked by dextral strike-slip faulting …

High-resolution temporal and stratigraphic record of Siletzia's accretion and triple junction migration from nonmarine sedimentary basins in central and western …

MP Eddy, SA Bowring, PJ Umhoefer, RB Miller… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The presence of early Eocene near-trench magmatism in western Washington and southern
British Columbia has led to speculation that this area experienced ridge-trench interaction …

[HTML][HTML] Laser ablation (U-Th-Sm)/He dating of detrital apatite

J Pickering, W Matthews, E Enkelmann, B Guest… - Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Laser ablation (U-Th-Sm)/He dating of apatite (LA-aHe) is an emerging technique
that presents a number of advantages over conventional whole-grain methods. Increased …

Upper-plate response to ridge subduction and oceanic plateau accretion, Washington Cascades and surrounding region: Implications for plate tectonic evolution of …

RB Miller, PJ Umhoefer, MP Eddy… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The interaction between subduction zones and oceanic spreading centers is a common
tectonic process, and yet our understanding of how it is manifested in the geologic record is …

Latest Cretaceous to early Tertiary dextral strike-slip faulting on the southeastern Yalakom fault system, southeastern Coast Belt, British Columbia

PJ Umhoefer, P Schiarizza - Geological Society of …, 1996 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Yalakom fault system cuts the Cadwallader, Bridge River, and Methow terranes for 300
km along the northeast side of the Coast Belt in southwestern British Columbia. The fault …

Linking deep and shallow crustal processes during regional transtension in an exhumed continental arc, North Cascades, northwestern Cordillera (USA)

RB Miller, SM Gordon, S Bowring, B Doran… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The North Cascades orogen (northwestern USA) provides an exceptional natural
laboratory with which to evaluate potential temporal and kinematic links between processes …

Driving mechanisms for> 40 km of exhumation during contraction and extension in a continental arc, Cascades core, Washington

SR Paterson, RB Miller, H Alsleben, DL Whitney… - …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In the NW North American Cordillera, the Cascades core region of the Coast Plutonic
Complex underwent Late Cretaceous (> 96 Ma to locally 73 Ma) SW‐NE contraction and …