Assembly and preservation of lower, mid, and upper orogenic crust in the Grenville Province—Implications for the evolution of large hot long-duration orogens

T Rivers - Precambrian Research, 2008 - Elsevier
It is argued that the Grenville Province is a large hot long-duration orogen with a plateau in
the hinterland, remnants of which are preserved in the hangingwall of the Allochthon …

Geologic transect across the Grenville orogen of Ontario and New York

SD Carr, RM Easton, RA Jamieson… - … Journal of Earth …, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Revised cross sections of the western Grenville Province incorporate new geologic results
and reprocessed seismic reflection data. The geology is presented in terms of three tectonic …

Protracted continental collision—Evidence from the Grenville orogen

A Hynes, T Rivers - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2010 - cdnsciencepub.com
The Grenville Orogen in North America is interpreted to have resulted from collision between
Laurentia and another continent, probably Amazonia, at ca. 1100 Ma. The exposed segment …

Synconvergent ductile flow in variable‐strength continental crust: Numerical models with application to the western Grenville orogen

RA Jamieson, C Beaumont, MH Nguyen… - Tectonics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We present results from numerical models for a convergent orogen with laterally variable
lower crustal strength, representing a simplified orogenic system in which a strong craton …

The Grenville Province as a large hot long-duration collisional orogen–insights from the spatial and thermal evolution of its orogenic fronts

T Rivers - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
The proposition that the Grenville Province is a remnant of a large hot long-duration
collisional orogen is examined through a comparative study of its present orogenic front, the …

A seismic-based cross-section of the Grenville Orogen in southern Ontario and western Quebec

DJ White, DA Forsyth, I Asudeh, SD Carr… - Canadian Journal of …, 2000 - cdnsciencepub.com
A schematic crustal cross-section is presented for the southwestern Grenville Province
based on reprocessed Lithoprobe near-vertical incidence seismic reflection data and …

Tectonic inferences from the ca. 1255–1100 Ma Unkar Group and Nankoweap Formation, Grand Canyon: Intracratonic deformation and basin formation during …

JM Timmons, KE Karlstrom… - Geological …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Unkar Group of the Grand Canyon Supergroup is one of the best-preserved
remnants of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks in the southwestern United States. It …

[PDF][PDF] Is the “Grenville front” in the central United States really the Midcontinent Rift

CA Stein, S Stein, R Elling, GR Keller, J Kley - GSA Today, 2018 - academia.edu
Two prominent Precambrian geologic features of central North America are the Midcontinent
Rift (MCR) and Grenville Front (GF). The MCR, an extensive band of buried igneous and …

Crustal architecture and tectonic assembly of the Central Gneiss Belt, southwestern Grenville Province, Canada: a new interpretation

JWF Ketchum, A Davidson - Canadian Journal of Earth …, 2000 - cdnsciencepub.com
The Central Gneiss Belt, southwestern Grenville Province, is characterized by
parautochthonous crust in the north and allochthonous lithotectonic domains in the south …

The Central Metasedimentary Belt (Grenville Province) as a failed back-arc rift zone: Nd isotope evidence

AP Dickin, RH McNutt - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2007 - Elsevier
Nd isotope data are presented for granitoid orthogneisses from the Central Metasedimentary
Belt (CMB) of the Grenville Province in order to map the extent of juvenile Grenvillian-age …