CORDILLERAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES - From Arizona to Southern Canada
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THE BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE: Origin and Tectonic Significance ADS Classic is now
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Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes form a belt of uplifted metamorphic rock that
extends from southern Canada to northwestern Mexico just west of, or astride, the foreland …

The superlative hot springs, geysers, and fumarole fields of Yellowstone National Park are
vivid reminders of a recent volcanic past. Volcanism on an immense scale largely shaped …

Inferring principal stress directions from geologic data, focal mechanisms, and in situ stress
measurements, we have prepared a map of principal horizontal stress orientations for the …

Plate boundaries in continental crust are generally less sharply defined than in the oceans,
with seismicity spread over broad areas. Interplate displacements appear to be largely …

Surface velocities derived from GPS observations from 1993 to 2011 at several hundred
sites across the deforming northwestern United States are used to further elucidate the …

In order to better understand geologic fac-tors controlling pronounced regional variations in
whole-rock chemistry, mineralogy, and mineral chemistry in the batholiths of California, we …

Integration of geophysical and geological data show that the Yellowstone hotspot resulted
from a mantle plume interacting with the overriding North America plate, a process that has …

Four maps are presented here that show the location and extent of magmatic fields between
eastern Alaska and northern Mexico during the successive time intervals of 55–40, 40–25 …