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Table of Contents - Memoir 204Backbone of the Americas: Shallow Subduction, Plateau Uplift, and Ridge and Terrane Collisionedited by Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, Víctor A. Ramos, and William R. Dickinson |
Preface | v | |
1. | Anatomy and global context of the North American Cordillera William R. Dickinson |
1 |
2. | Anatomy and global context of the Andes: Main geologic features and the Andean orogenic cycle Víctor A. Ramos |
31 |
3. | Neogene collision and deformation of convergent margins along the backbone of the Americas R. von Huene and C.R. Ranero |
67 |
4. | Relation of flat subduction to magmatism and deformation in the western United States Eugene Humphreys |
85 |
5. | Structural geologic evolution of the Colorado Plateau George H. Davis and Alex P. Bump |
99 |
6. | Three-dimensional kinematics of Laramide, basement-involved Rocky Mountain deformation, USA: Insights from minor faults and GIS-enhanced structure maps Eric A. Erslev and Nicole V. Koenig |
125 |
7. | Cretaceous–Eocene magmatism and Laramide deformation in southwestern Mexico: No role for terrane accretion Michelangelo Martini, Luca Ferrari, Margarita López-Martínez, Mariano Cerca-Martínez, Víctor A. Valencia, and Lina Serrano-Durán |
151 |
8. | Geochemical evolution of igneous rocks and changing magma sources during the formation and closure of the Central American land bridge of Panama Gerhard Wörner, Russell S. Harmon, and Wencke Wegner |
183 |
9. | Mode and timing of terrane accretion in the forearc of the Andes in Ecuador Cristian Vallejo, Wilfried Winkler, Richard A. Spikings, Leonard Luzieux, Friedrich Heller, and François Bussy |
197 |
10. | Influence of the subduction of the Carnegie volcanic ridge on Ecuadorian geology: Reality and fiction François Michaud, Cesar Witt, and Jean-Yves Royer |
217 |
11. | Shallowing and steepening subduction zones, continental lithospheric loss, magmatism, and crustal flow under the Central Andean Altiplano-Puna Plateau Suzanne Mahlburg Kay and Beatriz L. Coira |
229 |
12. | Flat-slab subduction and crustal models for the seismically active Sierras Pampeanas region of Argentina Patricia Alvarado, Mario Pardo, Hersh Gilbert, Silvia Miranda, Megan Anderson, Mauro Saez, and Susan Beck |
261 |