Whence the Mountains?: Inquiries Into the Evolution of Orogenic Systems : a Volume in Honor of Raymond A. PriceJames W. Sears, Tekla A. Harms, C. A. Evenchick The 19 original papers on the tectonic evolution of mountain systems were collected to mark the 50th anniversary of Price's description of the Canadian Cordillera. A sampling of topics turns up the driving mechanism and three-dimensional circulation of plate tectonics, the Belt-Purcell Basic as the keystone of the Rocky Mountain fold-and-thrust belt in the US and Canada, Silurian-Devonian orogenic events in the central Appalachians and the crystalline southern Appalachians, and defining the eastern boundary of the North Asian craton from structural and subsidence history studies of the Verkhoyansk fold-and-thrust belt. A fold-out sheet of color maps and diagrams is tucked into a pocket inside the back cover. |
Contents
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Petrotectonics of ultrahighpressure crustal and uppermantle rocks | 27 |
How much strain can continental crust accommodate without developing | 51 |
Insights from numerical models | 63 |
Canada and U S Cordillera | 99 |
A synthesis of the JurassicCretaceous tectonic evolution of the central | 117 |
Keystone of the Rocky Mountain foldandthrust belt | 147 |
Thermochronometric reconstruction of the prethrust paleogeothermal gradient and initial | 162 |
Appalachian Regions | 243 |
Balancing tectonic shortening in contrasting deformation styles through | 277 |
Links among Carolinia Avalonia and Ganderia in the Appalachian | 291 |
SilurianDevonian orogenic events | 313 |
Asian and Pacific Regions | 331 |
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Qaidam basin and its surrounding regions part | 369 |
Defining the eastern boundary of the North Asian craton from structural | 391 |
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Reconstructing the Snake RiverHoback River Canyon section of the Wyoming | 183 |
Structural metamorphic and geochronologic constraints on the origin of | 211 |
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Page xvii - Cordilleran structural province, in Price, RA, and Douglas, RJW, eds.. Variations in tectonic styles in Canada: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 1 1, p.