The Geology of North America: An OverviewAlbert W. Bally, Allison R. Palmer This new series marks the centennial of The Geological Society of America. It will consolidate the cooperative efforts of some 1,000 individuals from academia, state and federal agencies of many countries, and industry to prepare current, authoritative syntheses about the geology of the North Americ |
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in accompanying slipcase | 1 |
The Gravity Anomaly Map of North America | 17 |
The Magnetic Anomaly Map of North America A new tool | 29 |
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Alaska allochthonous Appalachians Archean Arctic Association of Petroleum Bally basalt basement basin boundary Brooks Range Cambrian Canada Canadian carbonate Caribbean Cenozoic central clastic coastal complex continental margin Cordillera craton Cretaceous crustal deformation deposits Devonian displacement early east eastern evolution fault system Figure fold belt foredeep foreland formation Geological Society Geology of North Geophysical granite gravity Gulf of Mexico Island Jurassic Late lithosphere lower magmatic magnetic anomaly Mesozoic metamorphic Middle Miocene North America North Atlantic northern northwestern oceanic crust ophiolitic Ordovician orogen Ouachita Ouachita Mountains Pacific Paleogene Paleozoic passive margin Permian Petroleum Geologists plate plutons Precambrian Proterozoic province region Ridge rift rocks Rocky Mountains salt sedimentary sediments seismic sequence shales shelf Sierra slope Society of America southern strata stratigraphic strike-slip structural subduction subsidence tectonic terrane Tertiary Texas thick thrust belt tion turbidites U.S. Geological Survey unconformity United uplift upper volcanic western zone