Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America

2013/04/01 by Karin Sigloch, Mitchell G. Mihalynuk · 8 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Continental margin #Cretaceous #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #North American Plate #Oceanic crust #Paleontology #Plate tectonics #Seismology #Slab #Subduction #Tectonics #Terrane #Volcanic arc #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1038/nature12019

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• The role of oceanic plateau subduction in the Laramide orogeny
• Was the Laramide orogeny related to subduction of an oceanic plateau?
• Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

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• Farallon plate [wikipedia]