A model for the North America Cordillera in the Early Cretaceous: Tectonic escape related to arc collision of the Guerrero terrane and a change in North America plate motion

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 374, Issue , 2003, Pages 117-134

  Umhoefer, Paul J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cordillera; Early Cretaceous; Oblique convergence; Paleogeography; Tectonics; Western North America

Indexed keywords

TECTONICS;

CORDILLERA; EARLY CRETACEOUS; OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; WESTERN NORTH AMERICA;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ARC-ARC COLLISION; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; FAULTING; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGMATISM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST FAULT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CALIFORNIA; CANADA; CAUCASUS; GUERRERO TERRANE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870902820     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2374-4.117     Document Type: Article

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