The mid-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges orogeny: a new slant on Cordilleran tectonics? II: northern United States and Canada

• Main Authors: Hildebrand, Robert S., Whalen, Joseph B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Toronto 2021
• Subjects: Yukon; Canada; British Columbia; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/106803; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2021-0006

The mid-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges orogeny occurred in the North American Cordillera and affected rocks from Mexico to Alaska. It formed when a marine trough, open for ~35 Myr, closed by westerly subduction beneath a 140-100 Ma arc complex. In Part I we described the features of the orogen in Mexi...