The history of the South China Craton and the constituent Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks are
directly linked to Earth's Phanerozoic and Precambrian record of supercontinent assembly …

The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

U-Pb geochronologic and Hf isotopic analyses have been conducted on detrital zircons
extracted from 36 samples of Neoproterozoic through Triassic passive margin strata from …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Mantle seismic structure beneath the United States spanning from the active western plate
margin to the passive eastern margin was imaged with teleseismic P and S wave traveltime …

ABSTRACT The Appalachians are a Paleozoic orogen that formed in a complete Wilson
cycle along the eastern Laurentian margin following the breakup of supercontinent Rodinia …