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 …

▪ Abstract The Cordilleran orogen of western North America is a segment of the Circum-
Pacific orogenic belt where subduction of oceanic lithosphere has been underway along a …

The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to
all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant …

In general, Archean rocks exhibit rather ordinary moderate-P-high-T facies series
metamorphism; neither blueschists nor any record of deep continental subduction and return …

The Franciscan Complex of California records over 150 million years of continuous E-
dipping subduction that terminated with conversion to a dextral transform plate boundary …

Previously published and new U-Pb geochronologic analyses provide 313 zircon and 59
titanite ages that constrain the igneous and cooling history of the Coast Mountains batholith …

Ophiolites have long been recognized as on-land fragments of fossil oceanic lithosphere,
which becomes an ophiolite when incorporated into continental margins through a complex …

Deciphering the magmatic history of continental magmatic arcs, in general, and the growth
history of individual intrusions, in particular, is key to understanding the complex history of …

Sediment provenance analysis remains a powerful method for testing hypotheses on the
temporal and spatial evolution of uplifted source regions, but issues such as recycling …

This paper proposes an alternative high-order, non-genetic classification of the basement
rocks of medial New Zealand. More than 90% of the rocks in the Median Tectonic Zone are …