The Mexican orogen is the expression in Mexico of the Cordilleran orogenic system. The orogen extends the length of Mexico, a distance of 2000 km from the state of Sonora in the …
The western quarter of North America consists of accreted terranes—crustal blocks added over the past 200 million years—but the reason for this is unclear. The widely accepted …
A new view on the genesis of, and links between, the Sierra Madre Occidental silicic large igneous province, the Comondú Group of Baja California, and the Gulf of California rift has …
Abstract The Geological Framework of Mexico is formed by a mosaic of tectono-stratigraphic terranes that were assembled during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic as the result of the …
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 …
Several Proterozoic basement units crop out in the Sonora State of NW Mexico, and the same can be correlated with crustal provinces of southern Laurentia in the neighboring …
Ever since the late 1960s when Warren Hamilton proposed that the great Cordilleran batholiths of the western Americas are the roots of volcanic arcs like the Andes and were …
Granitic plutons constitute a major portion of the Phanerozoic continental crust of Mexico, with the great majority (ca. 90%) associated to the Laramide Late-Cretaceous–Eocene …
" In this well-illustrated book, Hildebrand expands upon his model for the development of the North American Cordillera detailed in Special paper 457. Starting with an overview of …