Tectonic synthesis of the Ouachita-Marathon-Sonora otogenic margin of southern Laurentia: Stratigraphic and structural implications for timing of deformational events and plate-tectonic model

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 543-596

  Poole, Forrest G ^a   Perry, William J ^b   Madrid, Raul J ^c   Amaya Martinez, Ricardo ^d  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Independent Scientist   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Fold thrust belt; Foreland basins and uplifts; Laurentia gondwana; Paleozoic Proterozoic; Stratigraphy; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; GRANITE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TIMING CIRCUITS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; FORELAND BASIN; LAURENTIA-GONDWANA; PLATE-TECTONIC MODELS; PROTEROZOIC; SOUTH-DIPPING SUBDUCTION;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FLYSCH; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; GONDWANA; ISLAND ARC; LAURENTIA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; RHYOLITE; RIFT ZONE; TRANSFORM FAULT; UPLIFT;

ARKANSAS; BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; CHIHUAHUA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MISSISSIPPI; SONORA; UNITED STATES;

VANIA;

EID: 39649111641     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.543     Document Type: Article

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