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
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 279 mm

The breakup of the Pangean supercontinent in the Triassic-Jurassic age left great rift basins containing an extraordinary record of the physical and biological conditions which precipitated a major extinction event at the time. These basins collectively form a rift province called the Central Atlantic Margin, which spans more than 45 degrees of paleolatitude and records over 35 million years of Earth history. Leading experts present a detailed review of the rift province's geology, paleobiology, and geophysics. This extensive two-volume work offers in-depth coverage of the North American components of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. In volume 1, leading researchers give thorough reviews and highlight recent advances in our understanding of the structural geology, tectonics, and volcanism of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province.

Autoren/Hrsg.

LeTourneau, Peter

Olsen, Paul

Fachgebiete

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

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.