Backbone of the Americas; shallow subduction, plateau uplift, and ridge and terrane collision.

9780813712048

Backbone of the Americas; shallow subduction, plateau uplift, and ridge and terrane collision.

Ed. by Suzanne Mahlburg Kay et al.

Geological Society of America

2009

278 pages

$90.00

Hardcover

Memoir; 294

QE621

Editors Kay (earth and atmospheric sciences, Cornell U.), Ramos (geology and natural science, U. de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Dickinson (geosciences, U. of Arizona) have collected research from a 2006 conference in Argentina to provide researchers and geologists with multidisciplinary and international perspective on the evolution of the Cordilleras of the Americas. These papers concentrate on the geological activity in this ridge through North, Central and South America and how it contributes to magmatism, geochemical evolution, terrane accretion and flat subduction. Studies have been obtained from such regions as the Rockies, the Andes, the Carnegie volcanic ridge and the Colorado Plateau.

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