Title: Did westward subduction cause Cretaceous-Tertiary orogeny in the North American Cordillera? /
Authors: Hildebrand, R. S.
Publisher: Geological Society of America,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Orogeny North America.; Orogenic belts North America.; Geology North America; Geology, Stratigraphic.
Contents: Introduction -- Geological overview of the Cordillera -- Why current models fail -- The passive margin and westward correlations -- Fold-thrust belt and exotic slices -- The Hinterland Belt -- Failed subduction of North America -- Age of thrusting and collision -- Exotic rocks generally considered part of North America -- The superterrane -- The suture -- 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 -- The 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.