Geology of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen in Canada and Greenland / edited by Harold Williams.
TITLE:
Geology of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen in Canada and Greenland / edited by Harold Williams.
Publication Date:
1995
Publication Information:
[S.I.] : Geological Survey of Canada,
Volume:
no. 6
Physical Description:
944 p. : ill.
Additional Contributors:
Summary:
The Appalachian region of North America is a Paleozoic geological mountain belt or orogen occupying a position peripheral to the continent's stable interior craton. The Appalachian miogeocline and its extensions such as those found in Greenland form an open-ended continental margin. This volume details the geology of the Appalachian and related Greenland Caledonian Orogens, with a focus on the Canadian Appalachian Orogen. It describes the rocks of the Canadian Appalachian region under four broad temporal divisions: Lower Paleozoic and older, Middle Paleozoic, Upper Paleozoic, and Mesozoic. Separate sections cover the geophysical characteristics of the Orogen, plutonic rocks, metallogeny, paleontological contributions to Paleozoic paleogeographic and tectonic reconstructions, and East Greenland Caledonides. The volume is also intended as a report of progress in Appalachian geological research.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780660131344
General Note:
Six col. maps on 1 folded leaf in pocket.
