G 410/ 510 Geology of North America
Revised 29 Mar 2011
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G 410 only: in Bold
John McPhee 1998 Annals of the Former World (Farrar, Strous, Giroux, New York) 696 pages
G410 & G 510: in Plain Text
G 510 Only: in Italic Text
March 29: Introduction to the course: Geological Map of North America
Iceland and Sea Floor Spreading
Isacks et al 1968 Seismology and the New Global Tectonics
McPhee: 1-14, 31-34, 62-67, 378-386.
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/gmap/
http://maps.unomaha.edu/maher/GEOL3300/lab/lab1.html
http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/gmna/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2781/
Harker , A. 1920 Notes on Geological Map Reading 70 pp
March 31 Mid Atlantic & Northwest Atlantic Margin
McPhee: 19-31, 67-99
Norodahl et al 2006 The Geology of Iceland
Supplemental Reading:
Harris 2010 Delineating and quantifying depositional facies patterns in carbonate reservoirs: insight from modern analogs AAPG Bulletin 94: 61-84.
Crosby et al 2011 Evolution of deep-water rifted margins: testing depth-dependent extensional models Tectonics v 30 TC 1004
McHone, J. Gregory 1996 Broad-terrane Jurassic flood basalts across
northeastern North America Geology v. 24; no. 4; p. 319–322
Steckler M. R. and A.B. Watts 1978 Subsidence of the Atlantic-type continental margin off New York Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 41 1-13.
Tucholke, B. E., Robert E. H., and W. J. Ludwig 1982 Sediment Thickness and Depth to Basement in Western North Atlantic Ocean Basin AAPG Bulletin.
Ebinger., C. J., and Tucholke, B. E. 1988 Marine Geology of Sohm Basin, Canadian Margin, AAPG Bulletin v 72, pp 1450-1468.
Surlyk, F 1991 Sequence stratigrapy of the Jurassic-lowermost Cretaceous of East Greenland, AAPG Bulletin v 75, pp.1468-1488.
Tucholke, BE and Fry, VA 1985 Basement structure and sediment distribution in northwest Atlantic Ocean AAPG Bulletin v 69, pp 2077-2097
Withjack et al 2010 Influence of preexisting fault fabric on inversion-related deformation: a case study of the inverted Fundy rift basin, southeastern Canada Tectonics 29: TC 6004
Alsop and Talwani 1984 The East Coast Magnetic Anomaly Science V. 226, No. 4679 (Dec. 7, 1984), pp. 1189-1191
Browning, JV et al 2006 Quatification of the effects of eustasy, subsidence and sediment supply on Miocene sequences, mid-Atlantic margin of the United States GSA Bulletin v118, pp567-588.
Denny, WM, Austin, JA, Buffler, RT 1994 Seismic stratigraphy and geologic history of middle Cretacous through Cenozoic rocks, southern Straits of Florida AAPG Bulletin v 78, pp 461-487.
Perry., WJ, Minard, JP, Weed, EGA, Robbins, EI and Rhodehamel, EC 1975 Stratigraphy of the mid-Atlantic coastal margin of the United States north of Cape Hatteras-brief survey AAPG Bulletin v 59 pp 1529-1438.
Schlische, RW, and Withjack, MO 2000 Relative timing of CAMP, rifting, continental breakup and basin inversion: techonic significance In Harmes et al The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, AGU Monograph
Ings, SJ and Shimeld 2006 A new conceptual model for the structural evolution of a regional salt detachment on the northeast Scotian margin, offshore eastern Canada AAPG Bulletin v 90 pp 1407-1423.
April 5: North Atlantic & Arctic Ocean Basins
Dinkelman et al 2008 Highlights of petroleum and crustal framework of the US Chukchi shelf: key results from the ChukchiSPAN Survey CSEG Recorder pp 35-43.
Jagoutz, O et al 2007 The rift-to-drift transition in the North Atlantic: a stuttering start of the MORB machine? Geology v 35 pp.1087-1090.
Lane, L. S 1997 Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean: Evidence against a rotational origin, Tectonics v 16 p 363-387.
Lyberis, N and Manby, G 1999 The Eurekan deformation of North and Eastern North Greenland Polarforschung v 69 pp 95-106.
Miller et al 2010 Stratigraphy and U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology of Wrangel Island, Russia: implications for Arctic paleogeography AAPG Bulletin 94: 665-692.
Supplemental Reading
Cochran, JR et al 2003 The Gakkel Ridge: bathymetry, gravity anomalies, and crustal accretion at extremely slow spreading rates JGR v108 B2, 2116.
Franke, D, Hinz, K, and Reichert, C 2004 Geology of the East Siberian Sea, Russian Arctic, from seismic images: structures, evolution, and implications for the evolution of the Arctic Ocean basin JGR v109, p B07106.
Greenwood et al 2010 How wet was the Arctic Eocene rain forest? Estimates of precipitation from Paleogene Arctic macrofloras Geology 38: 15-18.
Kroeger, K. et al 2008 A three-dimensional instight into the Mackenzie Basin (Canada): Implications for the thermal history and hydrocarbon generation potential of the Tertiary deltaic sequences AAPG Bulletin v 92, pp 225-247.
Surlyk, F. 1991 Sequence stratigraphy of the Jurassic-Lowermost Cretaceous of East Greenland AAPG Bulletin v 75, pp1468-1488.
April 7: Gulf of Mexico Basin and Caribbean Basin
Galloway, WE, Ganey-Curry, PE, Li, X, Buffler, RT 2000 Cenozoic depositional history of the Gulf of Mexico Basin AAPG Bulletin v. 84 pp. 1743-1774.
Mancini, EA, Peng, L, Goddard, DA, Ramirez, V, Talukdar, SC 2008 Mesozoic Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous) deep gas reservoir play, central and eastern Gulf coastal plain, AAPG Bulletin v. 92 pp. 283-308.
Pindell, J and Kennan, L 2009 Tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and northern South America in the mantle reference frame: an update In: James et al (eds) The geology and evolution of the region beween North and South America, Geological Society of London Special Publication.
Stern & Dickinson, W. 2010 The Gulf of Mexico is a Jurassic backarc basin Geosphere 6: 739-754.
Supplemental Reading
Budd, D. A. 2001 Permeability loss with depth in the Cenozoic carbonate platform of west-central Florida AAPG Bulletin v 85, pp 1253-1272
Bird, et al 2005 Gulf of Mexico tectonic history: hotspot tracks, crustal boundaries, and earl salt distribution AAPG Bulletin v 89, pp 311-328
Herndon and Roberts 1988 Facies development of Atchafalaya delta, Louisana: a modern bayhead delta AAPG Bulletin v 72, pp 439-453.
Mickus, K. et al 2009 Potential field evidence for a volcanic rifted margin along the Texas Gulf Coast. Geology v 37, pp 387-390.
Hernandez-Mendoza, J, DeAngelo, MV, Wawrzyniec, TF, and Hentz, TF 2008 Major structural elements of the Miocene section, Burgos Basin, Northeastern Mexico AAPG Bulletin v 92, pp 1479-1499.
Weimer, P and Bufler, R. T. 1992 Structural geology and evolution of the Mississippi Fan Fold Belt, Deep Gulf of Mexico, v.76 pp. 225-251.
April 12: Pacific Plate Margin: California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska
McPhee: 386-403, 430-436, 472-510, 535-621
Ridgeway, KD and Flesch LM 2007 Cenozoic tectonic processes along the southern Alaskan convergent margin Geology v 35, pp 1056-1057.
See all of the animations at
http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/downloads.php
Atwater, T. and Stock, J., 1998 Pacific-North America plate tectonics of the Neogene southwestern United States: an update: International Geology Review 40: 375-402.
Camp, V. E. and Hanan, BB. 2008 A plume-triggered delamination origin for the Columbia River Basalt Group Geosphere v 4, pp 480-495.
Gehrels et al 2009 U-Th-Pb geochronology of the Coast Mountains batholith in north-coastal British Columbia: constraints on age and tectonic evolution. GSA Bulletin v. 121, pp 1341-1361.
Portnyagin, M et al 2005 Transition from arc to oceanic magmatism at the Kamchtka-Aleutian junction Geology v 33, pp 25-28.
Supplemental Reading
Akciz et al 2010 Century-long average time intervals between earthquake ruptures of the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain, California Geology 38: 787-790.
Faulds, JE et al 2005 Kinematics of the northern Walker Lane: an incipient transform fault along the Pacific-North American plate boundary Geology v 33, pp 505-508
Henry & Faulds 2010 Ash-flow tuffs in the Nine Hill, Nevada, paleovalley and implications for tectonism and volcanism in the western Great Basin, USA Geosphere 6: 339-369.
Howard, JL 1996 Paleocene to Holocene paleodelta of ancestral Colorado River offset by the San Andreas fault system, southern California Geology v 24, pp 783-786.
Kellog, KS and Minor, SA 2005 Pliocene transpressional modification of depositional basins by convergent thrusting adjacent to the “Big Bend” of the San Andreas fault: an example from Lockwood Valley, southern California Tectonics v 24 12pp
Lock et al 2006 Late Neogene and Quaternary landscape evolution of the northern California Coast Ranges: evidence for Mendocino triple junction tectonics. GSA Bulletin v 118, pp 1232-1246.
Mahadevan et al 2010 Why subduction zones are curved Tectonics 29: TC 6002
McQuarrie, N and Wernicke, BP 2005 An animated tectonic reconstruction of southwestern North America since 36 Ma Geosphere v 1 pp 147-172.
Michaud et al 2006 Oceanic-ridge subduction vs. slab break off: plate tectonic evolution along the Baja California Sur continental margin since 15 Ma Geology v 34 pp 13-16.
Plattner et al 2009 On the plate boundary forces that drive and resist Baja California motion Geology v 37, pp 359-362.
Yule, D. 2009 The enigmatic San Gorgonio Pass Geology v. 37, pp 191-192.
Butzer, C et al 2004 Neogene tilting of crustal panels near Wrangell, Alaska Geology v 32, pp 1061-1064.
Jicha, BR. Et al 2006 Revised age of Aleutian Island Arc formation implies high rate of magma production Geology v 34, pp 661-664.
Hampton et al 2010 A detrital record of Mesozoic island arc accretion and exhumation in the North American Cordillera: U-Pb geochronology of the Kahiltna basin, southern Alaska Tectonics 29: TC4015.
Redfield et al 2007 Escape tectonics and the extrusion of Alaska: past present and future. Geology v.35, pp 1039-1042.
Rusmore et al 2010 Deformation of continental crust along a transform boundary, Coast Mountains, British Columbia Tectonics 29: TC4007.
April 14: Rio Grande Rift, Gulf of California, the Basin & Range, and The Grand Canyon
McPhee: 42-62, 137-143, 366-378, 436-472.
Axen, G. J. 2007 Significance of large-displacement low-angle normal faults. Geology v. 35, pp 287-288.
Dorsey 2010 Sedimentation and crustal recycling along an active oblique-rift margin: Salton Trough and northern Gulf of California Geology 38: 443-446.
Henry, C. 2009 Uplift of the Sierra Nevada, California Geology v 37, pp. 575-576.
Karlstrom . K. E. et al 2008 Model for tectonically driven incision of the younger than 6 Ma Grand Canyon Geology v. 36, pp 835-838.
Moucha et al 2008 Mantle convection and the recent evolution of the Colorado Plateau and the Rio Grande Rift valley Geology v. 36, pp. pp. 439-442.
Walker et al 2007 Kinematic evidence for downdip movement on the Mormon Peak detachment. Geology v. 35 pp 259-262.
April 19 The Tertiary and Cretaceous Interior Basins
Cather et al 2008 The Chuska erg: paleogeomorphic and paleoclimatic implications of an Oligocene sand sea on the Colorado Plateau. GSA Bulletin v. 120, pp 15-33.
Cecil et al 2010 Provenance of Eocene river sediments from the central northern Sierra Nevada and implications for paleotopography Tectonics 29: TC6010
Davis et al 2010 The Paleogene California River: evidence of Mojave-Uinta paleodrainage from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons Geology 38: 931-934.
Kaufman 1984 Paleobiogeography and evolutionary response dynamic in the Cretaceous interior seaway of North America in Jurassic-Cretaceous Biochronology and Paleogeography of North America (Westermann ed) Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 27.
April 21 Cordilleran Geology: Laramide Orogeny I
Colpron et al 2007 Northern Cordilleran terranes and their interaction through time. GSA Today v. 17, pp..
DeCelles, P. G. 2004 Late Jurassic to Eocene Evolution of the Cordilleran Thrust Belt and Foreland Basin System, Western U.S.A. American Journal of Science v304 pp 105-168.
Ernst 2010 Young convergent-margin orogens, climate, and crustal thickness-a Late Cretaceous-Paleogene Nevadaplano in the American Southwest? Lithosphere 2: 67-75.
Supplementary Reading
Loope et al 2010 Follow the water: connecting a CO2 reservoir and bleached sandstone to iron-rich concretions in the Navajo Sandstone, south-central Utah, USA Geology 38: 999-1002.
Shervais et al 2005 Radioisotpic and biostratigraphic age relations in the Coast Range Ophiolite, Northern California: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Western Cordillera. GSA Bulletin v. 117, pp. 633-653.
April 26: Cordilleran Geology: Laramide Orogeny II
Paleozoic Margin of Western North America
Donohoo-Hurley et al 2010 Magnetostratigraphy of the uppermost Triassic and lowermost Jurassic Moenave Formation, western United States GSA Bulletin 122: 2005-2019.
Monger, J. and Price, R. 2002 The Canadian Cordillera: Geology and Tectonic Evolution.
CSEG Recorder v. ?? pp. 17-36.
Lund et al 2010 SHRIMP U-Pb dating of recurrent Cryogenian and Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician alkalic magmatism in central Idaho: implications for Rodinian rift tectonics. GSA Bulletin 122: 430-453.
Stevens, C. H. and Pelley, T. 2006 Development and dismemberment of a Middle Devonian continental margin submarine fan system in eastern California GSA Bulletin v. 118: 59-170.
Supplement
Dickinson, W. R. and Gehrels, G. E. 2009 U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Jurassic eolian and associated sandstones of the Colorado Plateau: evidence for transcontinental dispersal and intraregional recycling of sediment. GSA Bulletin v 121, pp 408-433.
Dickinson et al 2010 Detrital zircons from fluvial Jurassic strata of the Michigan basin: implications for the transcontinental Jurassic paleoriver hypothesis Geology 38: 499-502.
Ducea, M. N. and Barton, M. D. 2007 Igniting flare-up events in Cordillera arcs Geology v. 35, pp. 1047-1050.
April 28: Paleozoic Interior Basins
Dickinson WR and Lawton TF 2003 Sequential intercontinental suturing as the ultimate control for Pennsylvanian Ancestral Rocky Mountains deformation Geology v. 31, pp 609-612.
Harms, J. C. and Williamson, C. R. 1988 Deep-water density current deposits of Delaware Mountain Group (Permian), Delaware Basin, Texas and New Mexico AAPG Bulleting v. 72, pp. 299-317.
Howell, PD and van der Pluijm BA 1990 Early history of the Michigan basin: subsidence and Appalachian tectonics Geology v 18, pp 1195-1198
Runketl et al 2007 High resolution sequence stratigraphy of lower Paleozoic sheet sandstones in central North America: the role of special conditions of cratonic interiors in development of stratal architecture. GSA Bulletin v. 119, pp. 860-881.
Supplemental
Gentzis et a1996 Thermal maturity of Lower Paleozoic sedimentary successions in Arctic Canada.AAPG Bulletin v. 80, pp. 1065-1984.
Luczaj, et al 2006 Fractured hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs in the Devonian Dundee Formation of the central Michigan basin. AAPG Bulletin v. 90, pp. 1787-1801
April 28 Lab Exercise: Paleogeography
Ron Blakely had produced an array of paleogeographic maps on a variety of scales. Some relate to our lab exercise
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/globaltext.html
Chris Scotese has global paleogeographic globes on this page:
http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm
The University of Chicago initiated the Paleogeographic Atlas Project in 1975, let by Fred Ziegler and Chris Scotese. The website is now hosted at the University of Arizona:
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rees/PGAPhome.html
Peter Ziegler introduced many workers in Europe to paleogeographic maps he compiled showing the development of western Europe and surrounding regions. One example, relevant to our course, is found here:
http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/97020/aapgzi.htm
Canada has a long tradition of open data and regional studies published by the provincial and national surveys. The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin is found here:
http://www.ags.gov.ab.ca/publications/wcsb_atlas/atlas.html
May 3 Appalachian Mountains I
McPhee: 172-251.
Murphy, JB et al 2004 Contiguous rather than discrete Paleozoic histories for the Avalon and Meguma terranes based on detrital zircon data Geology v. 32, pp 585-588.
Schoonmaker, A. et al 2005 Foreland-forearc collisional granitod and mafic magmatism caused by lower-plate lithospheric slab breadkoff: the Acadian of Maine and other orogens Geology v. 33, pp 961-964.
Smith et al 2004 Lower Paleozoic stratigrphy of East Greenland Caledonides GEUS Bulletin v. 6, pp. 5-28.
Sweet & Soreghan 2010 Late Paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the ancestral Front Range: structural, Stratigraphic, and sedimentologic evidence from the Fountain Formation (Manitou Springs, Colorado) GSA Bulletin 122: 575-594
Supplemental Reading
Beranek et al 2010 Detrital zircon geochronology of the western Ellesmerian clastic wedge, northwestern Canada: insights on Arctic tectonics and the evolution of the northern Cordilleran miogeocline GSA Bulletin 122: 1899-1911.
Higgens and Leslie 2004, The Eleonore So and Malebjerg foreland windows, East Greenland Caledonides, and the demise of the ‘stockwerke’ concept GEUS Bulletin v 6, pp 77-93.
Karabinos, et al 1998 Taconic orogeny in the New England Appalachians: collision between Laurentian and Shelburne Falls arc Geology v 26, pp 215-218.
Sahney et al 2010 Rainforest collapse triggered Carboniferous tetrapod diversification in Euramerica Geology 1079-1082.
Schoonmaker and Kidd 2006 Evidence for a ridge subduction event in the Ordovician rocks of north-central Maine GSA Bulletin v118, pp 897-912.
May 5 Appalachian Mountains II
Read carefully:
Thomas, WA 2006 Tectonic inheritance at a continental margins GSA Today v 16
Review the abstract, figures and discussion / conclusions of these:
Engelder and Whitaker 2006 Early jointing in coal and black shale: evidence for an Appalachian-wide stress field as a prelude to the Alleghanian orogeny Geology v 34 pp 581-584.
Hall, WE 1956 Marathon folded belt in Big Bend area of Texas AAPG Bulletin v 40 pp 2247-2255.
Harry, DL et al 2003 Early Paleozoic transform-margin beneath the Mississippi coastal plain, southeast Unites States Geology v.31, pp 696-672.
Keppie et al 2008 Synthesis and tectonic interpretation of the westernmost Paleozoic Variscan orogen in southern Mexico: from rifted Rheic margin to active Pacific margin. Tectonophysics v 461 pp. 277-290
Tull, J. F. et al 2007 Volcanic arc emplacement on the southernmost Appalachian Laurentian shelf: characteristics and constraints GSA Bulletin v. 119 pp 261-274.
Wise, DU 2004 Pennsylvania salient of the Appalachians: a two-azimuth transport model based on new compilations of Piedmont data Geology v. 32, pp 777-780.
May 10: The Assembly of Pangea
McPhee: 219-251
Gutierrez-Alonso et al 2008 Self-subduction of the Pangean global plate Nature Geoscience v 1: 549-553.
Murphey and Nance 2008 The Pangea conumbrum Geology v 36: . 703-706.
Dehler et al 2010 Maximum depositional age and provenance of the Uinta Mountain Group and Big Cottonwood Formation, northern Utah: paleogeography of rifting western Laurentia GSA Bulletin 122: 1686-1699.
May 12: Precambrian Geology
McPhee: 622-660.
Hoffman, P. 1989 Precambrian geology and tectonic history of North America In Bally, A.W. and Palmer, A.R. The Geology of North America; An Overview DNAG Vol A: 447-512
Supplemental reading
Stewart et al 2010 Paleogeographic implications of non-North American sediment in the Mesoproterozoic upper Belt Supergroup and Lemhi Group, Idaho and Montana, USA Geology: 927-930.
McBride et al 2005 Integrating seismic reflection and geological data and interpretation across an internal basement massif: The southern Applachian Pine Mountain window, USA GSA Bulletin v. 117, pp. 669-686.
May 17: No Class: GSA Section Field Trip
May 19: Plate tectonic history of North America