North American Cordillera

The North American Cordillera includes some of the highest peaks on the continent.

The Nevadan belt runs up and down the middle of the North American Cordillera.

This cordillera is part of the North American Cordillera.

Laramide Belt - of the North American Cordillera.

The large number of displaced terranes in the North American Cordillera are considered by Coney et al.

Jurassic Magmatism and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera.

Another, formed by the Andes and the North American Cordillera, runs along the entire western margin of the Americas.

It may be associated with either the Toby or the Vreeland formations of the North American Cordillera.

The Maria fold-and-thrust-belt is defined as the region where the compression that helped create the North American Cordillera - abruptly changed directions.

The valley of Meager Creek is one of the most active and hazardous in the North American Cordillera.

Most of Armstrong's effort was spent systematically building an enormous database on the geochronology of the North American Cordillera.

For instance, it has been estimated that over 70 per cent of the North American Cordillera is made up of displaced terranes (Fig. 3.31).

In Canada, the North American Cordillera is usually divided into three physiographic regions: the western system, the interior system, and the eastern system.

The country's most prominent geological features are mountain ranges, including the North American Cordillera, which stretches from Southern Mexico to Alaska.

About 80% of the southern part of the North American Cordillera within the Republic of Mexico is made up of suspect terranes.

Similar, and in part coeval, successor basin sequences throughout the North American Cordillera may have been generated in response to similar tectonic settings.

Map of the Canadian portion of the North American Cordillera that indicates the collage of accreted terranes.

The Laramide belt is on the side of the North American Cordillera most distant from the Pacific Coast Ranges.

Extending over 2000 km, the YTT is the largest tectonostratigraphic terrane in the northern North American Cordillera.

In the North American Cordillera there is strong evidence that Salterella is restricted to the medial part of the Bonnia–Olenellus Zone.

The north to south climatic zonation of upper Pliensbachian ammonites known in Europe has been recognized in the North American Cordillera.

Geologically they are part of the Yukon Ranges, in the upper Laramide Belt of the North American Cordillera.

The North American Cordillera is a well-studied plate margin that provides a good example of the effects a slab window can have on an over-riding continental plate.

Lithotectonic terrane map of the North American Cordillera [Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-2176].

The transition from the crust to the mantle beneath the Canadian portion of the North American Cordillera varies in depth, geometry, and tectonic age across the orogen.