
The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada
Description
Key Features
- Features updates to existing chapters, along with new chapters on sedimentary basins in Alaska and Arctic Canada
- Includes nearly 300 detailed, full-color paleogeographic maps
- Written for general geological audiences and individuals working in the resources sector, particularly those in the fossil fuel industry
Readership
Geologists, basin analysts, stratigraphers, sedimentologists
Table of Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Andrew D. Miall
1. The Phanerozoic tectonic and sedimentary evolution of North America
Andrew D. Miall and Ron C. Blakey
2. Phanerozoic evolution of the sedimentary cover of the North American Craton
Peter Burgess
3. Appalachian Foreland Basin of Canada
Denis Lavoie
4. The Appalachian and Black Warrior Basins: Foreland Basins in the Eastern United States
Frank Robert Ettensohn, Jack C. Pashin and William Gilliam
5. The Paleozoic western craton margin
Andrew D. Miall
6. The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada: Basin creation and destruction in the collisional zone of Pangea
Martin Gibling
7. Pennsylvanian-Jurassic sedimentary basins of the Colorado Plateau and Southern Rocky Mountains
Ron C. Blakey
8. The southern Midcontinent, Permian Basin and Ouachitas
Andrew D. Miall
9. The Western Interior Basin
Andrew D. Miall
10. Cordilleran sedimentary basins of Western Canada record 180 million years of terrane accretion
Brian Ricketts
11. Subduction-related sedimentary basins of the U.S.A. Cordillera
Raymond V. Ingersoll
12. Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the inner California borderland: template for fill-and-spill sedimentation
Jacob Covault and Glenn Sharman
13. Laramide sedimentary basins
Timothy F. Lawton
14. Sverdrup Basin
Ashton Embry
15. Atlantic Margin basins
Andrew D. Miall
16. Depositional evolution of the Gulf of Mexico sedimentary basin
Thomas E. Ewing
17. Geology of the Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Canada
Larry S. Lane
18. Arctic Alaska
David Houseknecht
19. Postscript: What have we learned and where do we go from here?
Andrew D. Miall
Product details
- No. of pages: 823
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: April 19, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444638953
About the Editor
Andrew Miall
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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Harry D. Thu Feb 13 2020
Sedimentary basins of USA and Canada
An excellent and very comprehensive compilation from which I have and will learn a lot. Lavishly illustrated. A hugely valuable book, placed in an excellent context by the editor.. A couple of slight comments - there could have been a bit more consistency in the contributions and I thought that there could have been much more seismic data to illustrate the subsurface structure of the basins