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 …

Abstract The Bear Lodge alkaline complex in northeastern Wyoming (USA) is host to
potentially economic rare-earth mineralization in carbonatite and carbonatite-related veins …

A global set of present plate boundaries on the Earth is presented in digital form. Most come
from sources in the literature. A few boundaries are newly interpreted from topography …

Geochronological, structural, and sedimentological data provide the basis for a regional
synthesis of the evolution of the Cordilleran retroarc thrust belt and foreland basin system in …

The Laramide orogeny had a spatially variable lifespan, which we explain using a
geodynamic model that incorporates onset and demise of flat-slab subduction. Laramide …

A well-established event of intraplate basin inversion and basement thrusting affected
central Europe in Late Cretaceous time. It is widely accepted to have resulted from the …

We present tectonic reconstructions and an accompanying animation of deformation across
the North America–Pacific plate boundary since 36 Ma. Intraplate deformation of …

The world's 877 giant oil and gas fields are those with 500 million bbl of ultimately
recoverable oil or gas equivalent. Remarkably, almost all of these 877 giant fields, which by …

We discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at the trench, and
slab geometry beneath South America. Although some correlation exists between the …

Measurements of seismic anisotropy in fractured rock are used at present to deduce
information about the fracture orientation and the spatial distribution of fracture intensity …