The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada

Andrew Miall

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• ISBN:
  9780080929361
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

In recent years there have been rapid strides in our understanding of plate-tectonic processes, many developments in methods of basin analysis, and the accumulation of much new surface and subsurface geological and geophysical data. Projects such as COCORP (in the United States) and Lithoprobe (in Canada) have provided essential insights into the deep crustal structure of the continent. Synthesis of all the available information about North America's geological regions has not been attempted systematically since the "Decade of North American Geology" project undertaken by the Geological Society of America and the Geological Survey of Canada nearly twenty years ago. The book commences with a summary of the Phanerozoic geological history of the United States and Canada, illustrated with a suite of new paleogeographic maps, and tying in each of the subsequent regional chapters by the inclusion of numerous cross-references. This followed by a set of fifteen regional syntheses of the principal tectonic regions of the United States and Canada, focusing on the stratigraphic and tectonic history of the major sedimentary basins. Most of these chapters have been contributed by specialists, drawing on their own research, and providing interpretive summaries of a type not previously attempted.

• Up-to-date synthesis of the sedimentary/tectonic history of the major areas of the United States and Canada
• Up-to-date references
• Many new color maps

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada
• Copyright page
• Contributors
• Introduction and Acknowledgments
• Iternational Stratigraphic Chart
• Chapter 1 The Phanerozoic Tectonic and Sedimentary Evolution of North America
• Chapter 2 Phanerozoic Evolution of the Sedimentary Cover of the North American Craton
• Chapter 3 Appalachian Foreland Basin of Canada
• Chapter 4 The Appalachian Foreland Basin in Eastern United States
• Chapter 5 The Paleozoic Western Craton Margin
• Chapter 6 The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada: Basin Creation and Destruction in the Collisional Zone of Pangea
• Chapter 7 Pennsylvanian–Jurassic Sedimentary Basins of the Colorado Plateau and Southern Rocky Mountains
• Chapter 8 The Southern Midcontinent, Permian Basin, and Ouachitas
• Chapter 9 The Western Interior Basin
• Chapter 10 Cordilleran Sedimentary Basins of Western Canada Record 180 Million Years of Terrane Accretion
• Chapter 11 Subduction-Related Sedimentary Basins of the USA Cordillera
• Chapter 12 Laramide Sedimentary Basins
• Chapter 13 Sverdrup Basin
• Chapter 14 The Atlantic Margin Basins of North America
• Chapter 15 Depositional Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin
• Chapter 16 Geology of the Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Canada
• Chapter 17 Postscript: What have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here?
• Index