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Mantle and geological evidence for a Late Jurassic – Cretaceous suture spanning North America

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Crustal blocks accreted to North America form two major belts which are separated by a tract of collapsed Jura-Cretaceous basins extending from Alaska to Mexico. Evidence of oceanic lithosphere that once underlay these basins is rare at the earth’s surface. Most of the lithosphere was subducted, which accounts for the general difficulty of reconstructing oceanic regions from surface evidence. However, this seafloor was not destroyed; it remains in the mantle beneath North America and is vi...

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10.1130/B31529.1

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Exeter College
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Name:
Leverhulme Trust
Funding agency for:
Sigloch, K
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Philip Leverhulme Prize
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European Research Council
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639003
Publisher:
Geological Society of America
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Geological Society of America Bulletin More from this journal
Volume:
129
Issue:
11-12
Pages:
1489-1520
Publication date:
2017-06-01
Acceptance date:
2017-04-20
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EISSN:
1943-2674
ISSN:
0016-7606
Pubs id:
pubs:697876
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uuid:0edbd710-ba27-4aa4-a257-d79b43a84781
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697876
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2017-06-03

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