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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 154. The Rocky Mountains provide a key region for understanding the evolution of the western North American continent and processes that shape continents in general. As a result, the region has prompted intense and pioneering geologic investigations for over a century, offering scientists an exceptionally rich field laboratory in which to gather data and to make and test interpretations. The Continental Dynamics of the Rocky Mountain (CD-ROM) experiment (1995-2004), from which this book derives, follows in this tradition, motivated by three leading questions: how are continents initially formed and stabilized; how do old lithospheric structures and boundaries influence younger tectonic events; and how did processes related to the plate boundary affect the evolution of the Cenozoic Rocky Mountains? To successfully answer such questions requires integrated studies focused from the surface, through the crust, into the mantle, and with a four-dimensional approach that also encompasses the time dimension.

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Author:   KE Kalstrom ,  G. Randy Keller
Publisher:   American Geophysical Union
Imprint:   American Geophysical Union
Volume:   154
Dimensions:   Width: 22.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 27.80cm
Weight:   1.430kg
ISBN:  

9780875904191

ISBN 10:   087590419
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   14 January 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Karl E. Karlstrom and G. Randy Keller ix Introduction Karl E. Karlstrom and G. Randy Keller 1 Tectonics, Structure Geology, Regional Geophysics 2D Laramide Geometries and Kinematics of the Rocky Mountains, Western U.S.A. Eric A. Erslev 7 Complex Proterozoic Crustal Assembly of Southwestern North America in an Arcuate Subduction System: The Black Canyon of the Cunnison, Southwestern Colorado Micah I. Jessup, Karl E. Karlstrom, James Connelly, Michael Williams, Richard Livaccari, Amanda Tyson, and Steven A. Rogers 21 Signs From the Precambrian: The Geologic Framework of Rocky Mountain Region Derived From Aeromagnetic Data Carol A. Finn and Paul K. Sims 39 Low-Temperature Cooling Histories of the Cheyenne Belt and Laramie Peak Shear Zone, Wyoming, and the Soda Creek-Fish Creek Shear Zone, Colorado Shari A. Kelley 55 The Proterozoic Ancestry of the Colorado Mineral Belt: 1.4 Ga Shear Zone System in Central Colorado Annie M. McCoy, Karl E. Karlstrom, Colin A. Shay and Michael L. Williams 71 Structure of the North Park and South Park Basins, Colorado: An Integrated Geophysical Study Leandro Treviiio and G. Randy Keller 91 Gravity Modeling of the Colorado Mineral Belt Annie M. McCoy, Mousumi Roy, Lendro Treviiio, and G. Randy Keller 99 Paleomagnetic and Geochronologic Data Bearing on the Timing, Evolution, and Structure of the Cripple Creek Diatreme Complex and Related Rocks, Front Range, Colorado Jason S. Rampe, John IN Geissman, Mark B. Melker, and Matthew T: Heizler 107 Isostatic Constraints on Lithospheric Thermal Evolution: Application to the Proterozoic Orogen of the Southwestern United States R. M. Flowers, L. H. Royden, and S. A. Bowring 125 Geochemistry, Geochronology and Xenolith Studies Contrasting Lower Crustal Evolution Across an Archean-Proterozoic Suture: Physical, Chemical and Ceochronologic Studies of Lower Crustal Xenoliths in Southern Wyoming and Northern Colorado G. Lang Farmer, Samuel A. Bowring, Michael L. Williams, Nikolas I. Christensen, Jennifer T. Matzel, and Liane Stevens 139 40Ar/39ArT hermochronologic Record of I.45 - 1.35 Ga lntracontinental Tectonism in the Southern Rocky Mountains: Interplay of Conductive and Advective Heating with lntracontinental Deformation Colin A. Shaw, Matthew T. Heizler, and Karl E. Karlstrom 163 Characterization and Age of the Mesoproterozoic Debaca Sequence in the Tucumcari Basin, New Mexico Jose FA. Amarante, Shari A. Kelley, Matthew T. Heizler, Melanie A. Barnes, Kate C. Miller, and Elizabeth L: Anthony 185 Controlled Source Seismic Studies Background and Overview of Previous Controlled Source Seismic Studies Claus Prodehl, Roy A. Johnson, G. Randy Keller . Catherine M. Snelson, and Hanna-Maria Rumpel 201 Inter-Wedging Nature of the Cheyenne Belt-Archean-Proterozoic Suture Defined by Seismic Reflection Data E. A. Morozova, X. Wan, K. R. Chamberlain, S. B. Smithson, R. Johnson, and K. E. Karlstrom 217 Seismic Investigation of the Yavapai-Mazatzal Transition Zone and the Jemez Lineament in Northeastern New Mexico Maria Beatrice Magnani, Alan Levander, Kate C. Miller, Tefera Eshete, and Karl E. Karlstrom 227 Listric Thrust Faulting in the Laramide Front of North-Central New Mexico Guided by Precambrian Basement Structures Maria Beatrice Magnani, Alan Levander, Eric A. Erslev, Nicole Bolay-Koenig, and Karl E. Karlstrom 239 An lntegrated Geophysical Study of the Southeastern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico: Summary Oscar Quezada, G. Randy Keller, and Christopher Andronicos 253 An lntegrated Geophysical Analysis of the Great Divide Basin and Adjacent Uplifts, Southwestern Wyoming: Summary Veronica I. Cline and G. Randy Keller 255 Results of the CD-ROM Project Seismic RefractionIWide-Angle Reflection Experiment: The Upper and Middle Crust Hanna-Maria Rumpel, Claus Prodehl, Catherine M. Snelson, and G. Randy Keller 257 Regional Crustal Structure Derived from the CD-ROM 99 Seismic RefractionIWide-Angle Reflection Profile: The Lower Crust and Upper Mantle Catherine M. Snelson, G. Randy Keller, Kate C. Miller, Hanna-Maria Rumpel, and Claus Prodehl 271 Crust and Upper Mantle Velocity Structure of the Southern Rocky Mountains from the Jemez Lineament to the Cheyenne Belt Alan Levander, Colin Zelt, and Maria Beatrice Magnani  293 Passive Source Seismic Studies Passive Source Seismology of the Rocky Mountain Region Anne Sheehan, Vera Schulte-Pelkum, Oliver Boyd, and Charles Wilson 309 Lithospheric Stratigraphy Beneath the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA Brian Zurek and Ken Dueker 317 Upper Mantle Tomographic Vp and V, Images of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico: Evidence for a Thick Heterogeneous Chemical Lithosphere Huaiyu Yuan and Ken Dueker 329 Upper Mantle Anisotropy Beneath Precambrian Province Boundaries, Southern Rocky Mountains Otina C, Fox and Anne E Sheehan 347 Attenuation Tomography Beneath the Rocky Mountain Front: Implications for the Physical State of the Upper Mantle 0liver S. Boydand, Anne F Sheehan 367 CDROM lnterstation Pn Study Along the Rio Grande Rift Lynda A. Lastowka and Anne F. Sheehan 379 Rayleigh Wave Constraints on Shear-Wave Structure and Azimuthal Anisotropy Beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains Aibing Li, Donald W Forsyth, and Karen M. Fischer 385 Synthesis Papers The Dynamic Nature of the Continental Crust-Mantle Boundary: Crustal Evolution in the Southern Rocky Mountain Region as an Example G. Randy Keller, Karl E. Karlstrom, Michael L. Williams, Kate C. Miller, Christopher Andronicos, Alan R. Levander, Catherine M. Snelson, and Claus Prodehl 403 Synthesis of Results From the CD-ROM Experiment: 4-D Image of the Lithosphere Beneath the Rocky Mountains and Implications for Understanding the Evolution of Continental Lithosphere Karl E. Karlstrom, Steven 1. Whitmeyer, Ken Dueker, Michael L. Williams, Samuel A. Bowring, Alan Levander, E. D. Humphreys, G. Randy Keller, and the CD-ROM Working Group 421

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Karl E. Karlstrom. Ph.D., Wyoming, 1981 - Professor - researches field and analytical studies of ductile rock deformation and growth and assembly of Proterozoic continental lithosphere in North America.

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