Ancient Landscapes of Western North America

A Geologic History with Paleogeographic Maps

Ronald C. Blakey, Wayne D. Ranney (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 228 Seiten

2017 | 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-59634-1 (ISBN)

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Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn't exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas' shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before.

Winner of the 2021 John D. Haun Landmark Publication Award, AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section

Ron Blakey taught geology for over 37 years at the university level, mostly at NAU in Flagstaff, AZ. His specialty is the sedimentary rocks of the Colorado Plateau and surrounding areas including the Pacific Coast region. He has published well over 50 papers, many as single author, in national and international journals and symposia and two books, one published by Springer (see below). For the last 25 years, he has constructed paleogeographic maps from regional to global scale - these maps appear in many published geological papers, books, monographs, museums, and are used extensively in general education at all levels. His maps are based on the geological literature and are constructed as accurately as possible to mimic satellite views of ancient Earth. Many individual maps represent 40 - 80 or more hours of work each.

Geologic setting of the Cordillera: Introduction to terranes.- Overview of modern landscapes and geology, Western North America.- Proterozoic - origin of continental crust and passive margin history.- Passive margins and broad seaways - Early Pz (Camb-Dev).- First accretion - Antler orogeny (Dev-Miss).- Unstable margin - Marginal Island Arcs and terrane juxtaposition (Miss-Penn).- Second Accretion - Sonoman orogeny (Perm-Tr).- Cordilleran Arc - Sevier orogeny - volcanoes, batholiths, and more terranes (J-K).- Shallow subduction and arc disruption (Paleogene).- Transform margin and crustal extension (Neogene).- Canyons and glaciers - shaping the modern landscape (Pleistocene to Recent).- Special places - where to see the landscapes.- Use of Plaeogeographic maps.- New North American series (whole or cropped to area covered) - broad areas and broad events - to provide broad geologic setting.- Colorado Plateau-SW North America series - regional detail and events of N Mexico, California, Nevada, Western Arizona, Western Utah, Oregon, Idaho.- Global series - broad geologic setting of Western North America through geologic time.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	XI, 228 p. 146 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Gewicht	846 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Schlagworte	Earth and Environmental Science • earthquakes • faults • Geology Pacific Coast • geomorphology • Geomorphology & geological surface processes • Geomorphology & geological surface processes • North American accretion • North American Cordillera • Paleogeography • Plate Tectonics • Popular Earth Science • Popular science • Regional Geography • Structural Geology • subduction • Terrane accretion • Volcanic history • World Regional Geography • World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, R
ISBN-10	3-319-59634-9 / 3319596349
ISBN-13	978-3-319-59634-1 / 9783319596341
Zustand	Neuware