Abstract
The North American Cordilleran orogen consists of a structurally complex mountainous region which runs along the western edge of the continent for over 5000 km between Alaska and Mexico. Recent syntheses of structural, stratigraphic, paleobiogeographic, and paleomagnetic data have demonstrated that much of the orogen was constructed in Jurassic through early Tertiary time by the tectonic accretion of an assortment of crustal fragments with length scales ranging up to 1000 km (Monger and Ross, 1971; Davis et al., 1978; Beck, 1980; Coney et al., 1980; Saleeby, 1983). The California segment of the orogen is unique in that the volume of accreted materials is significantly less than what is typically preserved to the north, and the western limits of Proterozoic North American crust extend nearly to the present continent edge. The limits of such ancient crust coincide with major structural breaks which represent a lineage of plate junctures. Such junctures include the modern transform system as well as ancient suture and truncation zones whose activity extends back into the Paleozoic.
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Saleeby, J.B., Gehrels, G.E. (1988). The Interplay of Accretionary and Attritionary Tectonics along the California Margin. In: Nairn, A.E.M., Stehli, F.G., Uyeda, S. (eds) The Ocean Basins and Margins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8041-6_3
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive