The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

The ever-changing distribution of continents and ocean basins on Earth is fundamental to
the environment of the planet. Recent ideas regarding pre-Pangea geography and tectonics …

A supercontinent, here named Columbia, may have contained nearly all of the earth's
continental blocks at some time between 1.9 Ga and 1.5 Ga. At that time, eastern India …

Geochronological, structural, and sedimentological data provide the basis for a regional
synthesis of the evolution of the Cordilleran retroarc thrust belt and foreland basin system in …

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 …

Abstract Long period (10–20,000 s) magnetotelluric (MT) data are being acquired across the
continental USA on a quasi-regular grid of∼ 70 km spacing as an electromagnetic …

To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …

Between 1.8 and 1.0 Ga (Grenville-age), a series of subparallel accretionary orogens were
added progressively to the southern edge of Laurentia. These belts now extend from …

Palaeomagnetic apparent polar wander (APW) paths from the world's cratons at 1300–700
Ma can constrain the palaeogeographic possibilities for a long-lived and all-inclusive …

The Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh Group in the Tarim Block, NW China, contains multiple
diamictites in the Bayisi, Altungol, Tereeken, and Hankalchough formations. These …