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 …

Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction

TN Lamont, MA Loader, NMW Roberts, FJ Cooper… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The prevailing view of the formation of porphyry copper deposits along convergent plate
boundaries involves deep crustal differentiation of metal-bearing juvenile magmas derived …

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 …

Thermochronological evidence of early orogenesis, eastern Pyrenees, France

S Ternois, M Odlum, M Ford, R Pik, D Stockli… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In collisional orogens, distinguishing the thermal signature of early orogenesis from the
preceding rift or from subsequent thermal events is a major challenge. We present an …

Laramide bulldozing of lithosphere beneath the Arizona transition zone, southwestern United States

P Kapp, G Jepson, B Carrapa, AJ Schaen… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The northwest-trending transition zone (TZ) in Arizona (southwestern United States) is an~
100-km-wide physiographic province that separates the relatively undeformed southwestern …

Magmatism and extension in the Anaconda metamorphic core complex of western Montana and relation to regional tectonics

CJ Howlett, AN Reynolds, AK Laskowski - Tectonics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metamorphic core complexes (MCCs) are a product of crustal extension, but their dynamics
are still debated. Early research suggests that the formation of MCCs in the western United …

Evolution of Miocene normal and dextral faulting in the lower Colorado River region near Blythe, California, USA

SP Mavor, SEK Bennett, RS Crow… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The evolution of strain in nascent continental plate boundaries commonly involves
distributed deformation and transitions between different styles of deformation as the plate …

Orocopia Schist in the northern Plomosa Mountains, west-central Arizona: A Laramide subduction complex exhumed in a Miocene metamorphic core complex

ED Strickland, JS Singleton, GB Haxel - Lithosphere, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We document field relationships, petrography, and geochemistry of a newly identified
exposure of Orocopia Schist, a Laramide subduction complex, in the northern Plomosa …

Distributed Neogene faulting across the western to central Arizona metamorphic core complex belt: Synextensional constriction and superposition of the Pacific–North …

JS Singleton, NM Seymour, SJ Reynolds… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present fault data from a belt of Miocene metamorphic core complexes in western and
central Arizona (USA) to determine patterns of brittle strain during and after large-magnitude …

Late Cretaceous‐Early Paleogene Extensional Ancestry of the Harcuvar and Buckskin‐Rawhide Metamorphic Core Complexes, Western Arizona

MS Wong, JS Singleton, NM Seymour, PB Gans… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metamorphic core complexes in the western North American Cordillera are commonly
interpreted as the result of a single phase of large‐magnitude extension during the middle to …