Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

Sedimentary basins of the broadly defined Laramide province, which includes the Rocky
Mountain region from Montana south to New Mexico, the Colorado Plateau, and the …

The Cenozoic fill of the Gulf of Mexico basin contains a continuous record of sediment
supply from the North American continental interior for the past 65 million years. Regional …

In late Mesozoic time, the southern Cordilleran foreland basin was bounded on the west by
the Sevier thrust belt and on the south by the Mogollon highlands. Paleocurrent indicators in …

Dynamic topography of Earth's surface occurs in response to hydrodynamic stresses due to
mantle flow beneath a flexible lithosphere. Here, we compare the predicted dynamic …

Abstract The Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB) is a northeast-trending,∼ 500-km-long, 25–50-
km-wide belt of plutons and mining districts (Colorado, United States) that developed within …

The widespread presumption that the Farallon plate subducted along the base of North
American lithosphere under most of the western United States and∼ 1000 km inboard from …

Abstract The Pinaleño Mountains of southeastern Arizona is the eastern‐most metamorphic
core complex in the southern US and northern Mexican Cordillera. This study investigates …

The history of erosion of southwestern North America and its relationship to surface uplift is a
long-standing topic of debate. We use geologic and thermochronometric data to reconstruct …

Within the Sonora segment to the south, break-off magmatism was also prevalent. Both the
Canadian and Sonoran segments have abundant porphyry copper mineralization …