Crustal cross sections from the western North American cordillera and elsewhere
Subtitle: implications for tectonic and petrologic processes
By: edited by Robert B. Miller, Arthur W. Snoke.
Contributors: Miller, Robert B. 1951-; Snoke, Arthur W.
Series: Special paper -- 456; Special papers (Geological Society of America) -- 456.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780813724560
Subjects: Continental crust; Geology, Stratigraphic; Orogeny; Geology, Structural; Plate tectonics
Notes: Accompanying compact disc includes selected figures, tables, and appendices supplementing chapters 1, 2, 4, and 6 of the printed volume, in Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The utility of crustal cross sections in the analysis of orogenic processes in contrasting tectonic settings / R.B. Miller and A.W Snoke; title: Petrology and geochronology of crustal xenoliths from the Bering Strait region : Linking deep and shallow processes in extending continental crust / V.V. Akinin, E.L. Miller, and J.L. Wooden; title: Construction and evolution of the Kodiak Talkeetna arc crustal section, southern Alaska / D.W Farris; title: Mid-Cretaceous-Recent crustal evolution in the central Coast orogen, British Columbia and southeastern Alaska / M.L. Crawford, K.A. Klepeis, G.E. Gehrels, and J. Lindline; title: Plutonism at different crustal levels: Insights from the -5-40 km (paleodepth) North Cascades crustal section, Washington / R.B. Miller, S.R. Paterson, and J.P. Matzel; title: Granulite- to amphibolite-facies metamorphism and penetrative deformation in a disrupted ophiolite, Klamath Mountains, California: A deep view into the basement of an accreted oceanic arc / S.R. Garlick, L.G. Medaris Jr., A.W Snoke, J.J. Schwartz, and S.M. Swapp; title: Mesozoic magmatism in an upper- to middle-crustal section through the Cordilleran continental margin arc, eastern Transverse Ranges, California / S.K. Needy ... [et al.]; title: Perspectives on the architecture of continental crust from integrated field studies of exposed isobaric sections / M.L. Williams, K.E. Karlstrom, G. Dumond, and K.H. Mahan; title: Evolution of the middle and lower continental crust during the transition from contraction to extension in Fiordland, New Zealand / K.A. Klepeis and D.S. King; title: A granulite-facies normal shear zone exposed in the Arunta inlier of central Australia : Implications for deep-crustal deformation during oblique divergence / C. Waters-Tormey, L.B. Goodwin, B. Tikoff, K. Staffier, and P. Kelso.