| Abstract |
1 |
| Introduction |
2 |
| Problems with the Existing Back-Arc Model |
3 |
| A Segmented Orogen |
8 |
| Laurentian Passive Margin |
9 |
| Great Basin Sector |
11 |
| Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt |
11 |
| The Hinterland Belt |
19 |
| Central Nevada |
20 |
| White-Inyo Range |
20 |
| Death Valley |
21 |
| Western Sierra Nevada Metamorphic Belt |
22 |
| Klamath Mountains |
24 |
| Jurassic Magmatic Rocks |
27 |
| Sierran Region |
27 |
| Northwestern Nevada |
30 |
| Mojave Desert Region |
31 |
| Cretaceous Batholithic Rocks |
33 |
| Sierra Nevada Batholith |
34 |
| Salinian Block |
37 |
| Great Valley Sedimentation and Deformation |
37 |
| Coast Range Ophiolite |
40 |
| Franciscan Complex |
41 |
| Late Cretaceous Deformation and Metamorphism |
42 |
| Rand-Pelona-Orocopia-Swakane Subduction Complex |
43 |
| Sonoran Sector |
44 |
| Transverse Ranges |
44 |
| Southern Arizona |
45 |
| Mexican Sonora |
47 |
| Baja California |
47 |
| San Gabriel–Caborca Block |
47 |
| Guerrero and Other Mexican Terranes |
48 |
| The Great Arc of the Caribbean |
49 |
| Peninsular Ranges Batholith |
50 |
| Cretaceous Magmatism in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts |
50 |
| Subduction and Fore-Arc Complexes |
51 |
| Late Cretaceous Deformation and Metamorphism |
51 |
| Canadian Sector |
52 |
| Passive Margin |
52 |
| Foredeep |
53 |
| Canadian Terranes and Superterranes |
53 |
| Belt-Purcell-Windermere Supergroups |
54 |
| Selwyn Basin |
54 |
| Omineca Belt Magmatism |
56 |
| Kootenay Terrane |
56 |
| Yukon-Tanana Terrane |
57 |
| Slide Mountain Terrane |
57 |
| Stikinia and Quesnellia |
57 |
| Cache Creek Terrane |
58 |
| Triassic Overlap Sequence |
58 |
| Coast Range Plutonic Complex |
58 |
| Cretaceous Overlap Sequence |
59 |
| Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary Magmatism |
62 |
| North Cascades |
62 |
| Idaho Batholith |
62 |
| Blue Mountains Terranes |
64 |
| Alaskan Sector |
64 |
| Brooks Range, North Slope and Alaskan Orocline |
64 |
| Wrangellia Composite Terrane |
66 |
| Orogenic Basins in Central Alaska |
67 |
| The Chugach Accretionary Complex |
68 |
| Discussion |
69 |
| Paleozoic Events within the Great Basin and Canadian Sectors |
69 |
| Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic Arcs and Collisions |
71 |
| Talkeetna Arc |
71 |
| Bonanza Arc |
71 |
| Quesnellia-Kootenay-Belt-Purcell-Windermere |
72 |
| Black Rock Arc |
72 |
| Klamath Arcs |
72 |
| Lake Combie–Slate Creek Arc |
74 |
| Smartville Arc |
74 |
| Sierran Jurassic Arc |
75 |
| Slab Break-Off |
77 |
| Jurassic Slab-Failure Magmatism |
77 |
| Blue Mountains Assembly |
78 |
| Jurassic Amalgamation of Rubia |
78 |
| Subduction on the Western Side of Rubia |
78 |
| Arctic Alaska–Angayucham Collision in Alaska |
79 |
| Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt and Early Collision on Western North America |
80 |
| Effects of Sevier Collision on the Franciscan Complex and Great Valley Group |
81 |
| Plate Reorganization Due to Collision |
81 |
| Great Basin Slab-Failure Magmatism and STEP Faults |
81 |
| Cretaceous Cordilleran Batholiths |
82 |
| Mid-Cretaceous Transpressional Deformation in Batholithic Terranes |
84 |
| Folding of Sierra Nevada |
88 |
| Doubling of Cordilleran Batholiths in the Canadian Sector |
95 |
| The Laramide Event: ~80–75 Ma Deformation and Metamorphism |
98 |
| Laramide Collision along the Orogen |
99 |
| Cretaceous–Early Tertiary Slab Failure Magmatism |
100 |
| Shutdown of Franciscan Subduction |
103 |
| Exhumation of Franciscan Complex |
105 |
| Northward Migration of Terranes |
107 |
| Colorado Plateau and the Laramide Grand Canyon |
111 |
| Metamorphic Core Complexes and Hinterland Duplexes |
112 |
| Basin and Range Extension |
114 |
| Summary of Cordilleran Assembly |
114 |
| Carrying the Orogen Southward |
119 |
| Problems and Direction for Future Research |
120 |
| Acknowledgments |
121 |
| References Cited |
123 |