Whence the Mountains? Inquiries into the Evolution of Orogenic Systems: A Volume in Honor of Raymond A. Price

A synthesis of the Jurassic–Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the central and southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Exploring links across the orogen
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Published:January 01, 2007
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Carol A. Evenchick, Margaret E. McMechan, Vicki J. McNicoll, Sharon D. Carr, 2007. "A synthesis of the Jurassic–Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the central and southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Exploring links across the orogen", Whence the Mountains? Inquiries into the Evolution of Orogenic Systems: A Volume in Honor of Raymond A. Price, James W. Sears, Tekla A. Harms, Carol A. Evenchick
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Restoration of tectonic elements in the central interior of the Canadian Cordillera southward to their paleogeographic position in the Mesozoic permits comparison of data across the active orogen, recognition of the interplay between coeval lithospheric thickening and basin evolution, and new constraints on models of tectonic evolution. The onset of Middle Jurassic clastic sedimentation in the Bowser basin, on the west side of the Jurassic orogen, occurred in response to accretionary events farther inboard. Shortening and thickening of the crust between the Alberta foreland basin on the east side of the Jurassic orogen and Bowser basin on the west side...
- accretionary wedges
- Alberta
- basement
- basin analysis
- basins
- Bowser Basin
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Canadian Cordillera
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Cretaceous
- depositional environment
- detachment faults
- drainage
- faults
- fold and thrust belts
- fold belts
- foreland basins
- geodynamics
- Jurassic
- kinematics
- lithosphere
- Mesozoic
- models
- North America
- North American Cordillera
- Omineca Belt
- orogenic belts
- paleoenvironment
- paleogeography
- reconstruction
- Rocky Mountains
- sedimentary basins
- sedimentation
- Skeena Mountains
- Stikinia Terrane
- Sustut Basin
- systems
- tectonics
- terranes
- thin-skinned tectonics
- Western Canada