The Cordilleran Miogeosyncline in North America: Geologic Evolution and Tectonic Nature

by Henry V. Lyatsky and Vadim B. Lyatsky

Steep crustal-scale faults, having their origins in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic and trending NE-SW, which define the fundamental block lithospheric structure of the North American craton, are seen from geological and geophysical evidence to continue far into the interior of the Late Proterozoic-Phanerozoic Canadian Cordilleran mobile megabelt. This suggests that variously reworked ex-cratonic basement blocks underlie much of the Cordillera...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540661972
• ISBN13: 9783540661979
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"