The odyssey of the Cache Creek terrane, Canadian Cordillera: Implications for accretionary orogens, tectonic setting of Panthalassa, the Pacific superwell, and break-up of Pangea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 415-428

  Johnston, S T ^a   Borel, G D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b EPF Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

accretionary orogens; Canadian Cordillera; Pacific Superswell; paleogeography; Pangea; Panthalassa; supercontinents; tectonics

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY OROGENS; CACHE CREEK TERRANE (CCT); PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SUPERCONTINENTS;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TENSILE STRESS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OROGENY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845986725     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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