LeTourneau / Olsen The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America

Volume 1
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-53437-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 279 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

LeTourneau, Peter

Olsen, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Stratigraphie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Introduction to Vol 1, by Paul E. Olsen and Peter M. LeTourneau
Part I: Tectonics and Structure of Supercontintent Breakup
2. Introduction, by Martha O. Withjack and Roy W. Schlische
3. Mobility of Pangea: Implications for Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic Paleoclimate, by Dennis V. Kent and Giovanni Muttoni
4. Progress in Understanding the Structural Geology, Basin Evolution, and Tectonic History of the Eastern North American Rift System, by Roy W. Schlische
5. Tectonics of the Lantern Hill Fault, Southeastern Connecticut: Evidence for the Embryonic Opening of the Atlantic Ocean, by Robert J. Altamura
6. Estimates of Eroded Strata Using Borehole Vitrinite Reflectance Data, Triassic Taylorsville Rift Basin, Virginia: Implications for Duration of Syn-Rift Sedimentation and Evidence of Structural Inversion, by MaryAnn Love Malinconico
7. Stress Regimes in the Newark Basin Rift: Evidence from Core and Downhole Data, by Dave Goldberg, Tony Lupo, Michael Caputi, Colleen Barton, and Leonardo Seeber
8. A Lagerstätte of Rift-Related Tectonic Structures from the Solite Quarry, Dan River/Danville Rift Basin, by Rolf V. Ackermann, Roy W. Schlische, Lina C. Pati and Lois A. Johnson
Part II: The Camp Large Igneous Province
9. Introduction, by J. Gregory McHone
10. Flood Basalt Provinces of the Pangaean Atlantic Rift: Regional Extent and Environmental Significance, by J. Gregory McHone and John H. Puffer
11. Geochemistry and Origin of Pangean and Rodinian Continental Flood Basalts, by John H. Puffer
12. A Geographic Trend for Mgo-Standardized Major Oxides in Lower Mesozoic Olivine Tholeiites of the Southeastern U.S., by Paul C. Ragland, Vincent J. M. Salters, and William C. Parker
13. Evidence for Predominant Lateral Magma Flow Along Major Feeder Dike Segments of the Eastern North American Swarm Based on Magnetic Fabric, by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Richard E. Ernst, and Andrew G. Lindsey
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter M. LeTourneau is president of Mark GeoEnvironmental Sciences, L.L.C., and an associate research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.

Paul E. Olsen is A. D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.