The Cordilleran Miogeosyncline in North America Geologic Evolution and Tectonic Nature /

• Main Authors: Lyatsky, Henry V. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Lyatsky, Vadim B. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 86
• Subjects: Geology.; Sedimentology.; Geophysics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

Steep crustal-scale faults, having their origins in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic and trending NE-SW, which define the fundamental block lithospheric structure of the North American craton, are seen from geological and geophysical evidence to continue far into the interior of the Late Prote...

Table of Contents:

• Governing principles in regional tectonic evolution
• Rock units in regional tectonic analysis
• Conceptual fundamentals of regional tectonic analysis on continents
• View of the cordilleran mobile megabelts evolution from the craton
• Omineca orogenic belt as tectonotype of the Eastern Cordilleran miogeosyncline
• Broad look at geodynamial mechanisms of crustal restructuring in the Cordilleran orogens and median massifs
• Lessons from Cordilleran geology for the methodology of regional tectonic analysis of mobile megabelts
• Practical utility of rock evidence and geophysical studies in restoring regional tectonic history in mobile megabelts.