The tectonic–stratigraphic evolution of Vancouver Island, a part of the Insular Belt, is
reviewed as it relates to the other major tectonic belts recognized in the western Cordillera of …

continental rifting and crustal thinning took place between north america and africa during
the triassic and early jurassic, and sea floor spreading began in the early to middle jurassic …

The Canadian Cordillera (Figure 1A) is a relatively youthful mountain belt. However, its
origins extend back some 750 million years (or 750 Ma1) to the episode of rifting that …

The last and most extensive Jurassic marine transgression in North America began in the
Callovian, and reached its maximum limits during the Oxfordian. This eustatic event was …

Abstract The Jurassic System of the northern Western Interior of the United States records
events that marked its paleogeographic movement from a dominantly subtropical, carbonate …

Cretaceous rocks are widespread along the Pacific margin of North America and record the
presence of a variety of plutonic, metamorphic, and volcanic events, basin types …

The present Atlantic passive margin of North America has been the site of recurrent plate
activity over the course of geologic time. Different tectonic styles were superimposed over …

Abstract The Canadian Cordillera, the westernmost of the major physiographic and
geological regions of Canada, is an area of rugged mountains, plateaus, lowlands, valleys …

Few detailed-facies analyses of the rift-to-passive margin transition have been undertaken in
exhumed orogenic belts. The Unicoi and lower Hampton Formations in the central and …