The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America: Volume 1

Edited by Peter M. LeTourneau and Paul E. Olsen

Volume 1
May, 2003
Cloth, 240 pages, 93 line, 10 H/T
ISBN: 978-0-231-11162-1
$99.50 / £68.50

1. Introduction to Vol 1, by Paul E. Olsen and Peter M. LeTourneau

Part I: Tectonics and Structure of Supercontintent Breakup

2. Introduction, by Martha O. Withjack and Roy W. Schlische

3. Mobility of Pangea: Implications for Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic Paleoclimate, by Dennis V. Kent and Giovanni Muttoni

4. Progress in Understanding the Structural Geology, Basin Evolution, and Tectonic History of the Eastern North American Rift System, by Roy W. Schlische

5. Tectonics of the Lantern Hill Fault, Southeastern Connecticut: Evidence for the Embryonic Opening of the Atlantic Ocean, by Robert J. Altamura

6. Estimates of Eroded Strata Using Borehole Vitrinite Reflectance Data, Triassic Taylorsville Rift Basin, Virginia: Implications for Duration of Syn-Rift Sedimentation and Evidence of Structural Inversion, by MaryAnn Love Malinconico

7. Stress Regimes in the Newark Basin Rift: Evidence from Core and Downhole Data, by Dave Goldberg, Tony Lupo, Michael Caputi, Colleen Barton, and Leonardo Seeber

8. A Lagerstätte of Rift-Related Tectonic Structures from the Solite Quarry, Dan River/Danville Rift Basin, by Rolf V. Ackermann, Roy W. Schlische, Lina C. Pati and Lois A. Johnson

Part II: The Camp Large Igneous Province

9. Introduction, by J. Gregory McHone

10. Flood Basalt Provinces of the Pangaean Atlantic Rift: Regional Extent and Environmental Significance, by J. Gregory McHone and John H. Puffer

11. Geochemistry and Origin of Pangean and Rodinian Continental Flood Basalts, by John H. Puffer

12. A Geographic Trend for Mgo-Standardized Major Oxides in Lower Mesozoic Olivine Tholeiites of the Southeastern U.S., by Paul C. Ragland, Vincent J. M. Salters, and William C. Parker

13. Evidence for Predominant Lateral Magma Flow Along Major Feeder Dike Segments of the Eastern North American Swarm Based on Magnetic Fabric, by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Richard E. Ernst, and Andrew G. Lindsey

Related Subjects

• Geology

About the Author

Peter M. LeTourneau is president of Mark GeoEnvironmental Sciences, L.L.C., and an associate research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Paul E. Olsen is A. D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.

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