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 Prote...

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Main Authors:	Lyatsky, Henry V. (Author), Lyatsky, Vadim B. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1999
Series:	Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 86
Subjects:	Earth Sciences Geology Sedimentology Geophysics/Geodesy Earth sciences Geophysics Miogeosynklinale Zone Tektonik Orogenese Rocky Mountains
Online Access:	BTU01 Volltext
Summary:	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. The western edge of the modern craton is probably near the Rocky Mountain-Omineca belt boundary, where Cordilleran tectonic reworking of the crystalline crust is first encountered; the Rocky Mountain fold-and-thrust belt on the east side of the Cordillera is evidently rootless and overlies the undisturbed cratonic basement. Phanerozoic differences between the Cordilleran tectonic belts, resulting from a long, dissimilar, multi-cycle history of waxing and waning orogenesis apparent from the rock record, lie chiefly in the degree of indigenous tectonic remobilization and reworking of the ancient crust
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (XX, 388 p. 84 illus)
ISBN:	9783540486930
DOI:	10.1007/BFb0017571