The terrane puzzle new perspectives on paleontology and stratigraphy from the North American cordillera /
| Other Authors: | Blodgett, Robert B., Stanley, George D. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boulder, Colo. :
Geological Society of America,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. |
| Series: |
Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;
442. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references. Paleogeographic significance of Ediacaran cyclomedusoids within the Antelope Mountain Quartzite, Yreka terrane, eastern Klamath Mountains, California -- Silurian-bearing terranes of Alaska -- Silurian Gastropoda from the Alexander terrane, southeast Alaska -- Provenance, depositional setting, and tectonic implications of Silurian poly mictic conglomerates in Alaska's Alexander terrane -- Devonian brachiopods of southwesternmost Laurentia: biogeographic affinities and tectonic significance -- Devonian brachiopods from northeastern Washington: Evidence for a non-allochthonous terrane and Late Devonian biogeographic update -- Paleobiogregraphic affinities of Emsian (late Early Devonian) gastropods from Farewell terrane (west-central Alaska) -- Significance of detrital zircons in Upper Devonian ocean-basin strata of the Sonora allochton and Lwer Permian synorogenic strata of the Mina Mexico foredeep, central Sonora, Mexico -- The flora, fauna, and sediments of the Mount Dall Conglomerate (Farewell, terrane, Alaska, USA) -- Late Triassic silicified shallow-water corals and other marine fossils from Wrangellia and the Alexander terrane, Alaska, and Vancouver Island, British Columbia -- Conodont biostratigraphy and facies correlations in a Late Triassic island arc, Keku Strait, southeast Alaska -- Stratigraphy of the Triassic Martin Bridge Formation, Wallowa terrane: stratigraphy and depositional setting -- Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian) mixed carbonate-volcaniclastic facies of the Olds Ferry terrane, eastern Oregon and western Idaho -- Early Jurassic bivalves of the antimonio terrane (Sonora, NW Mexico): taxonomy, biogeography, and paleogeographic implications -- Dinosaurs of Alaska: implications for the Cretaceous origin of Beringia. |
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780813724423 0813724422 |