Tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts within the North American Cordillera orogenic system

WA Yonkee, AB Weil - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
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 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 …

Active tectonics of northwestern US inferred from GPS‐derived surface velocities

R McCaffrey, RW King, SJ Payne… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Surface velocities derived from GPS observations from 1993 to 2011 at several hundred
sites across the deforming northwestern United States are used to further elucidate the …

Complex subduction and small-scale convection revealed by body-wave tomography of the western United States upper mantle

B Schmandt, E Humphreys - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
New high-resolution P-and S-wave tomography of the United States upper mantle from the
Pacific Coast to the Great Plains reveals strong multi-scale heterogeneity closely correlated …

A global-scale plate reorganization event at 105− 100 Ma

KJ Matthews, M Seton, RD Müller - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
A major plate reorganization is postulated to have occurred at approximately 100Ma.
However, this reorganization has received limited attention, despite being associated with …

Isotopic evolution of the Idaho batholith and Challis intrusive province, northern US Cordillera

RM Gaschnig, JD Vervoort, RS Lewis… - Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The Idaho batholith and spatially overlapping Challis intrusive province in the North
American Cordillera have a history of magmatism spanning some 55 Myr. New isotopic data …

Detrital zircon geochronology of Cordilleran retroarc foreland basin strata, western North America

AK Laskowski, PG DeCelles, GE Gehrels - Tectonics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present a compilation of 8717 U‐Pb analyses from 95 detrital zircon samples of Jurassic‐
Eocene North American Cordillera foreland basin strata. Of these samples, 30 are new and …

Seismically imaged relict slab from the 55 Ma Siletzia accretion to the northwest United States

B Schmandt, E Humphreys - Geology, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Teleseismic tomography images a large high-velocity “curtain” extending vertically beneath
the ca. 50 Ma Challis magmatic trend to maximum depths of 230–600 km. We interpret this …

Early inception of the Laramide orogeny in southwestern Montana and northern Wyoming: Implications for models of flat‐slab subduction

B Carrapa, PG DeCelles… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Timing and distribution of magmatism, deformation, exhumation, and basin development
have been used to reconstruct the history of Laramide flat‐slab subduction under North …

Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous plutonism in the Colombian Andes: A record of long-term arc maturity

C Bustamante, CJ Archanjo, A Cardona… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Integrated geochemical, isotopic, and geochronological constraints from Jurassic plutonic
rocks of the Central Cordillera in Colombia were used to determine the tectonic setting and …