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Book The Cordillera

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  • Author : Melanie Ostopowich
  • Publisher : DIANE Publishing Inc.
  • Release : 2006-03-07
  • ISBN : 9781553881490
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book The Cordillera written by Melanie Ostopowich and published by DIANE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2006-03-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, geography, climate, plants, animals, and peoples of the Cordillera region of Canada.

Book Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera

Download or read book Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera written by Robert S. Hildebrand and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the Sonora segment to the south, break-off magmatism was also prevalent. Both the Canadian and Sonoran segments have abundant porphyry copper mineralization temporally and spatially associated with the break-off magmas, which suggests a genetic link between slab failure and porphyry copper mineralization. By 53 Ma, eastwardly dipping subduction of Pacific Ocean crust was generating arc magmatism on the amalgamated Cordilleran collision zone in both the Canadian and Sonoran segments. Oceanic schists, such as the Orocopia-Pelona-Rand, were formed in the ocean basin west of Rubia and accreted during initiation of the new easterly dipping subduction zone. A major transform fault, called the Phoenix fault, connects the Sevier fold-thrust belt at the California-Nevada border with that in eastern Mexico and separates the Great Basin and Sonoran segments. It juxtaposes the Sierra-Mojave-Sonora block alongside the Transition Zone of the Colorado Plateau. Cordilleran events affected the subsequent development of western North America. For example, the structural Basin and Range Province appears to coincide with the region where exotic allochthons sit atop North American crust in both the Great Basin and Sonoran segments. Also, within the triangular Columbia embayment, large segments of Rubia appear to have escaped laterally during the Cordilleran orogeny to create a lithospheric "hole" that was later filled by basalt of the Columbia River and Modoc plateaux.

Book Jurassic Magmatism and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera

Download or read book Jurassic Magmatism and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera written by David M. Miller and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1995 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating the multidisciplinary approach currently used to understand Jurassic magmatism and tectonics in western North America, 19 papers report a wealth of new data in the fields of structural geology, igneous petrology and isotope geochemistry, geochronology, sedimentology, and volcanology. T

Book The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin

Download or read book The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mesozoic Assembly of the North American Cordillera

Download or read book Mesozoic Assembly of the North American Cordillera written by Robert S. Hildebrand and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this well-illustrated book, Hildebrand expands upon his model for the development of the North American Cordillera detailed in Special paper 457. Starting with an overview of Cordilleran geology he goes on to provide an in depth look at how the Rubian ribbon continent was assembled. He integrates the complex geology of the Cordillera into an actualistic model involving arc magmatism, arc-continent collision, slab failure magmatism, and transcurrent motion in both Rubia and the western North American margin. While much of the focus is on the assembly of the Rubian ribbon continent, Hildebrand explores its interactions with North America during the Sevier and Laramide events and concludes that North America was the lower plate in both"--Provided by publisher.

Book Porphyry Deposits of the Canadian Cordillera

Download or read book Porphyry Deposits of the Canadian Cordillera written by Charles S. Ney and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog including a paper on every significant porphyry deposit in the Canadian Cordillera, including British Columbia and the Yukon.

Book Western Cordillera and Adjacent Areas

Download or read book Western Cordillera and Adjacent Areas written by Terry W Swanson and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes guides for field trips held in conjunction with the 2003 GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle. Topics covered include Glacial Lake Missoula and the Clark Fork Ice Dam; the Sauk Sequence in Utah; the geology of wine in Washington state; the Columbia River basalt and Yakima Fold Belt; Alpine glaciation of the North Cascades; and recent geoarchaeological discoveries in central Washington. Quaternary geology of Seattle, engineering geology in the central Columbia Valley, and the tephrostratigraphy and paleogeography of southern Puget Sound are also covered.

Book Quaternary Geology of the Southern Canadian Cordillera

Download or read book Quaternary Geology of the Southern Canadian Cordillera written by John Joseph Clague and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada

Download or read book The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada written by Andrew Miall and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-04-20 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada, Second Edition, focuses on the large, regional, sedimentary accumulations in Canada and the United States. Each chapter provides a succinct summary of the tectonic setting and structural and paleogeographic evolution of the basin it covers, with details on structure and stratigraphy. The book features four new chapters that cover the sedimentary basins of Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. In addition to sedimentary geologists, this updated reference is relevant for basin analysis, regional geology, stratigraphy, and for those working in the hydrocarbon exploration industry. Features updates to existing chapters, along with new chapters on sedimentary basins in Alaska and Arctic Canada Includes nearly 300 detailed, full-color paleogeographic maps Written for general geological audiences and individuals working in the resources sector, particularly those in the fossil fuel industry

Book Ore Deposits  Tectonics  and Metallogeny in the Canadian Cordillera

Download or read book Ore Deposits Tectonics and Metallogeny in the Canadian Cordillera written by W. J. McMillan and published by Province of British Columbia, Mineral Resources Division. This book was released on 1991 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a tectonic and mineral deposit overview, then discusses deposits in North American rocks, followed by deposits formed in accreted and suspect' terrains; deposits formed at or near the sea floor or from hot springs; and those formed in successively deeper zones as magmatic deposits, vein to replacement deposits, skarns, and porphyries. Deposits within and directly linked to intrusive rocks (magmatic, porphyries, skarns), replacement deposits, possible manto deposits, deep to shallow veins and related deposits formed at the surface, volcanogenic massive sulphides and sedex deposits are then discussed. Sedimentary-hosted deposits of gypsum, barite, phosphate and other industrial minerals are not covered, nor are coal, uranium, pegmatite-hosted deposits, molybdenum prophyries or some of the less common deposit types such as carbonatites, tin greisens, and placers.

Book Ordovician to Triassic Conodont Paleontology of the Canadian Cordillera

Download or read book Ordovician to Triassic Conodont Paleontology of the Canadian Cordillera written by Geological Survey of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation is a synthesis of Ordovician-Triassic conodont research undertaken in the Canadian Cordillera during the past decade. The studies include an overview of the record in Western Canada; a review of the paleontology; and descriptions of conodonts from the Cordillera Road River group in northern Yukon Territory, from the eastern and northern Canadian cordillera, of the Palliser Formation in the Rocky Mountains, and from the Cache Creek Complex in south-central B.C.

Book Drift Exploration in the Canadian Cordillera

Download or read book Drift Exploration in the Canadian Cordillera written by Peter T. Bobrowsky and published by Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the frequency of near-surface mineral discoveries in the British Columbia Cordillera diminishes, exploration is more frequently focused on regions of high potential but mantled by unconsolidated sediments or drift, dominated by Quaternary deposits. This volume is a compilation of papers on various aspects of drift exploration, using examples from British Columbia. Topics of the papers include Quaternary geology, recognition of paleo-flow direction, drift potential mapping, drilling methods, glacial dispersal determination using indicator clasts, till geochemistry, biogeochemical sampling, lake sedimentology, laboratory techniques, shallow seismic methods, borehole analysis, and resistivity mapping. Case studies elaborating on drift exploration concepts are dispersed throughout the compilation.

Book Geologic Field Trips of the Canadian Rockies

Download or read book Geologic Field Trips of the Canadian Rockies written by Jean C.C. Hsieh and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume includes guides to the Canadian Rocky Mountain fold and thrust belt, Late Cretaceous geology and fossils of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Lower to Middle Cambrian of the southern Canadian Rockies, the Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup in Glacier and Waterton Lakes national parks, and Montney Formation analogs"--

Book Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera

Download or read book Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera written by Robert Baer Smith and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1978-06-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: