Description In recent years there have been rapid strides in our understanding of plate-tectonic processes, many developments in methods of basin
analysis, and the accumulation of much new surface and subsurface geological and geophysical data. Projects such as COCORP (in the United
States) and Lithoprobe (in Canada) have provided essential insights into the deep crustal structure of the continent. Synthesis of all
the available information about North America's geological regions has not been attempted systematically since the ?Decade of North American
Geology? project undertaken by the Geological Society of America and the Geological Survey of Canada nearly twenty years ago. The book
commences with a summary of the Phanerozoic geological history of the United States and Canada, illustrated with a suite of new paleogeographic
maps, and tying in each of the subsequent regional chapters by the inclusion of numerous cross-references. This followed by a set of
fifteen regional syntheses of the principal tectonic regions of the United States and Canada, focusing on the stratigraphic and tectonic
history of the major sedimentary basins. Most of these chapters have been contributed by specialists, drawing on their own research,
and providing interpretive summaries of a type not previously attempted.
Audience
geologists; petroleum geologists
Contents 1. The Phanerozoic tectonic and sedimentary evolution of North America ( A.D. Miall, R. Blakey) 2. Phanerozoic evolution of the sedimentary
cover of the North American Craton (P. Burgess). 3. Appalachian foreland basin of Canada (D. Lavoie). 4. Appalachian foreland
basin in Eastern United States (F.R. Ettensohn). 5. The Paleozoic western craton margin (A.D. Miall). 6. The Maritimes Basin
of Atlantic Canada: Basin creation and destruction in the collisional zone of Pangeo (M.Gibling, et al). 7. Pennsylvanian-Jurassic
sedimentary basins of the Colorado Plateau and Southern Rocky Mountains (R. Blakey). 8. The southern Midcontinent, Permian Basin
and Ouachitas (A.D. Miall). 9. The Western Interior Basin (A.D. Miall, et al). 10. Cordilleran sedimentary basins of Western
Canada record 180 million years of terrane accretion (B. Ricketts). 11. Subduction-related sedimentary basins of the USA Cordillera
(R. Ingersoll). 12. Laramide sedimentary basins (T. Lawton). 13. Sverdrup Basin (A. Embry, B.Beauchamp). 14. Atlantic
margin basins (A.D. Mial, et al). 15. Depositional evolution of the Gulf of Mexico sedimentary basin (B. Galloway). 16. Geology
of the Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Beaufort-Mackenzie basin, Canada (J. Dixon, et al). 17. Postscript: What have we learned and where
do we go from here? (A.D. Miall)
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