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  title info:
    title: Ancient Landscapes of Western North America
    sub title: A Geologic History with Paleogeographic Maps
  name:
    name part: Blakey, Ronald C.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Ranney, Wayne D.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 228 p. 146 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn't exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas' shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before.
  table of contents: Geologic setting of the Cordillera: Introduction to terranes -- Overview of modern landscapes and geology, Western North America -- Proterozoic - origin of continental crust and passive margin history -- Passive margins and broad seaways - Early Pz (Camb-Dev) -- First accretion - Antler orogeny (Dev-Miss) -- Unstable margin - Marginal Island Arcs and terrane juxtaposition (Miss-Penn) -- Second Accretion - Sonoman orogeny (Perm-Tr) -- Cordilleran Arc - Sevier orogeny - volcanoes, batholiths, and more terranes (J-K) -- Shallow subduction and arc disruption (Paleogene) -- Transform margin and crustal extension (Neogene) -- Canyons and glaciers - shaping the modern landscape (Pleistocene to Recent) -- Special places - where to see the landscapes -- Use of Plaeogeographic maps -- New North American series (whole or cropped to area covered) - broad areas and broad events - to provide broad geologic setting -- Colorado Plateau-SW North America series - regional detail and events of N Mexico, California, Nevada, Western Arizona, Western Utah, Oregon, Idaho -- Global series - broad geologic setting of Western North America through geologic time.
  note: by Ronald C. Blakey, Wayne D. Ranney.
  subject:
    topic: Earth
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Structural geology
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Earth Science
  subject:
    topic: Structural Geology
  subject:
    topic: World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions)
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  classification: QE1-996.5
  classification: 550
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319596365
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59636-5
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    record creation date: 171003
    record change date: 20191023112112.0
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