Phanerozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Circum-North Pacific

Front cover......Page 1
Availability of Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey......Page 2
Title page......Page 3
Backs title page......Page 4
Back to TOC......Page 5
Tables......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Associated Studies......Page 12
Method of Tectonic Analysis......Page 13
Methods for Correlation, Linkage, and Alignment of Major Terranes and Overlap Assemblages......Page 14
Figure 1.......Page 15
Alignment of Coeval Arcs and Subduction Zones......Page 16
Figure 2.......Page 17
Origin of the Khanka Continental-Margin-Arc Superterrane and the Laoelin-Grodekorsk Island-Arc Terrane......Page 18
Figure 3.......Page 19
Figure 3 - Explanation......Page 20
Figure 4.......Page 21
Figure 4 - Explanation......Page 22
Correlation of Metamorphosed Continental- Margin Terranes in the Russian Northeast, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera and L......Page 23
Correlation of Passive-Continental-Margin Terranes in the Russian Northeast with the Verkhoyansk Fold-and-Thrust Belt......Page 24
Derivation of Passive-Continental-Margin Terranes in West-Central Alaska from the Verkhoyansk Fold-and-Thrust Belt in the Russian Northeast......Page 25
Derivation of the Okhotsk and Omolon Cratonal Terranes from Devonian and Older Parts of the North Asian Craton......Page 26
Stratigraphic Succession of Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Arcs of the Wrangellia Superterrane......Page 27
Subduction-Zone Terranes in the Russian Southeast and on Hokkaido Island, Japan,  Tectonically Linked to the Jurassic Monakin......Page 28
Subduction-Zone Units Linked to the Umlekan Arc......Page 29
Origin of the Khingan Arc......Page 30
Rock Units of the Uda Arc......Page 31
Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous Kony-Murgal Arc in the Russian Northeast......Page 32
Origin of the Pekul ’ney Arc......Page 33
Rock Units of the Uyandina Arc......Page 34
Subduction-Zone Units Linked to the Oloy and Svyatov Nos Arcs......Page 35
Late Jurassic Through Mid-Cretaceous Nutesyn-Koyukuk Arc in the Russian Northeast and Western Alaska......Page 36
Subduction-Zone Units Linked to the Nutesyn- Koyukuk Arc......Page 37
Rock Units of the Gravina Arc......Page 38
Subduction-Zone Units Linked to the Gravina Arc......Page 39
Rock Units of the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic Talkeetna-Bonanza Arc......Page 40
Rock Units of the Stikinia-Quesnellia Arc......Page 41
Subduction-Zone Units Linked to the Stikinia-Quesnellia Arc......Page 42
Subduction-Zone Units Linked to the East Sikhote- Alin Arc......Page 43
Rock Units of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Arc......Page 44
Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary Olyutorka Arc in the Russian Far East......Page 45
Origin of the Olyutorka Arc......Page 46
Subduction-Zone Units Linked to the Kluane and Coast Arcs......Page 47
Rock Units of the Northeast Asia Arc......Page 48
Backarc Units Linked to the Northeast Asia Arc......Page 49
Subduction-Zone Units Linked to the Aleutian-Wrangell Arc......Page 50
Subduction-Zone and Backarc Units Linked to the Cascade Arc......Page 51
Characteristics of the Verkhoyansk Collisional Granite Belt......Page 52
Collisional Origin of the Omineca-Selwyn Belt......Page 53
Paleomagnetic Constraints for Terranes and Overlap Assemblages......Page 54
Kolyma-Omolon Superterrane......Page 55
Paleomagnetic Dilemma:Loci of Accretion of the Wrangellia Superterrane......Page 56
Figure 5.......Page 57
Figure 5.—Continued.......Page 58
Figure 6.......Page 59
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Changes in Plate Motions......Page 60
Mississippian (360 –320 Ma)......Page 61
Specific Tectonic Events for the Pennsylvanian......Page 62
Figure 7.......Page 63
Figure 7 - Continued......Page 64
Figure 8.......Page 65
Figure 9.......Page 66
Specific Tectonic Events for the Carnian Through Norian......Page 67
Specific Tectonic Events for the Hettangian Through Pleinsbachian......Page 68
Figure 10.......Page 69
Summary of Paleolatitude Data for the Hettangian Through Pleinsbachian......Page 70
Figure 11.......Page 71
Specific Tectonic Events for the Toarcian Through Callovian......Page 72
Oxfordian Through Kimmeridgian (163 –144 Ma)......Page 73
Specific Tectonic Events for the Oxfordian Through Kimmeridgian......Page 74
Summary of Paleolatitude Data for the Oxfordian Through Kimmeridgian......Page 75
Specific Tectonic Events for the Neocomian......Page 76
Figure 14.......Page 77
Aptian Through Albian (120 –100 Ma)......Page 78
Cenomanian Through Santonian (100 –84 Ma)......Page 79
Figure 16.......Page 80
Specific Tectonic Events for the Campanian Through Early Eocene......Page 82
Figure 17.......Page 83
Middle Eocene Through Early Miocene (42 –23 Ma)......Page 84
Figure 18.......Page 85
Summary of Paleolatitude Data for the Middle Eocene Through Early Miocene......Page 86
Specific Tectonic Events for the Miocene......Page 87
Pliocene Through the Present (4 –0 Ma)......Page 88
Figure 20.......Page 89
References Cited......Page 90
Tables 1-3......Page 112
Table 1.Definitions of tectonic terms.......Page 113
Table 2.Summary of correlations and tectonic linkages for the Circum-North Pacific.......Page 115
Table 3. Paleomagnetic data for geologic units and geographic areas in the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera.......Page 120
Selected Series of U.S. Geological Survey Publications......Page 132
Back cover......Page 133