Did westward subduction cause Cretaceous-Tertiary orogeny in the North American Cordillera? /
[Book]
Robert S. Hildebrand
Boulder, Colo. :
Geological Society of America,
c2009
iii, 71 p. :
ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;
28 cm
Special paper ;
457
Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-71)
Geological overview of the cordillera -- Why current models fail -- Passive margin and westward correlations -- Fold-thrust belt and exotic slices -- Hinterland belt -- Failed subduction of North America -- Age of thrusting and collision -- Exotic rocks generally considered part of North America -- Superterrane -- Suture -- Slab break-off and development of metamorphic core complexes -- Laramide uplifts and thick-skinned deformation --Slab break-off magmas and the segmented North American plate -- Cordilleran-type batholiths and subducted crust -- Postcollisional magmatism on North America -- Triangle zone -- Mojave-Sonoran segment -- Case for the Phoenix fault -- Mojave-Sonora megashear and orocopia-pelona-rand schists -- Porphyry copper deposits -- Baja-BC and strike-slip faults -- Origin and significance of early to mid-tertiary extension -- Summary of the evolution of the Cordilleran Orogen