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 …

United Plates of America, the birth of a craton - Early proterozoic assembly and ADS Classic is
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The covariant behavior of Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd isotopes during most magmatic processes has
long been recognized, but the details of this behavior in the depleted mantle reservoir have …

This paper presents a plate-scale model for the Precambrian growth and evolution of the
North American continent. The core of the North American continent (Canadian shield) came …

Between 1.8 and 1.0 Ga (Grenville-age), a series of subparallel accretionary orogens were
added progressively to the southern edge of Laurentia. These belts now extend from …

Abstract The 1.43 Ga Sherman batholith, southeastern Wyoming, USA, shows extreme A-
type petrochemical characteristics compared with other Mid-Proterozoic granite batholiths of …

The crust of the Great Basin has occupied a range of tectonic settings through geologic time.
Archean and Paleoproterozoic crustal genesis preceded residence of Laurentia within the …

To display more clearly the gravity anomalies caused by geologic bodies in the upper parts
of the crust, a new colored isostatic residual gravity map of the conterminous United States …

Northeast-striking tectonic provinces and boundaries were established during 1.8–1.6-Ga
assembly of juvenile continental lithosphere in the southwestern United States. This …

Abstract The 1.96 Ga old Jormua complex comprises a fault-bounded unit (2–5× 20 km) in
the centre of the Kainuu Schist Belt at the eastern margin of the early Proterozoic …