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The sedimentary basins of the United States and Canada
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- Creator
- edited by Andrew D. Miall
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, [2019]
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (826 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780444638960, 0444638962, 0444638954, 9780444638953
- OCLC
- on1098274706
- Front Cover -- The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction and Acknowledgments -- ChronostratChart -- Chapter 1: The Phanerozoic Tectonic and Sedimentary Evolution of North America -- Introduction -- The major phases of tectonic development -- Phase one: the construction of pangea -- Plate-Tectonic Evolution -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Interior and Western Continental Margin -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Eastern Continental Margin -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Southern Margin -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Arctic Margin -- Phase two: development of the southern midcontinent and ancestral rockies -- Plate-Tectonic Evolution -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Mid-Continent and Ancestral Rockies -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Western and Northern Continental Margin -- Phase three: breakup of pangea and formation of the cordilleran orogen -- Plate-Tectonic Evolution -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Western Margin -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Western Interior -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Arctic Margin -- Sedimentary Evolution of the Atlantic and Gulf Margins -- Mid-Late Cenozoic Tectonism of the Western Margin -- Late cenozoic modifications -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2: Phanerozoic Evolution of the Sedimentary Cover of the North American Craton -- Introduction -- Definition of a Craton -- Tectonic Elements of the North American Craton -- The Canadian Shield -- The Cratonic Platform -- Intracratonic Basins -- Cratonic Margins -- Controls on Evolution of the Cratonic Cover -- Eustasy -- Extension and Thermal Reequilibration -- Intraplate Stress -- Dynamic Topography Related to Subducting Slabs -- Dynamic Topography Related to Supercontinent Cycles, Mantle Convection Cells, and Plate Amalgamation and Dispersal -- Magmatic Controls
- Phanerozoic Evolution of the Cratonic Platform Cover -- The Sauk Sequence (Late Precambrian to Early Ordovician) -- The Tippecanoe Sequence (Middle Ordovician to Early Devonian) -- Kaskaskia Sequence (Mid-Early Devonian to Late Mississippian) -- Absaroka Sequence (Late Mississippian to Early Jurassic) -- Zuni Sequence (Middle Jurassic to Early Paleocene) -- Tejas Sequence (Late Paleocene to Present) -- The North American Intracratonic Basins -- The Michigan Basin -- Phanerozoic History of the Basin -- The Illinois Basin -- Phanerozoic History of the Basin -- The Williston Basin -- Phanerozoic History of the Basin -- The Hudson Bay Basin -- Phanerozoic History of the Basin -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3: The Cambrian-Devonian Laurentian Platforms and Foreland Basins in Eastern Canada -- Introduction -- Regional Tectonic Setting -- Tectonostratigraphic Domains of the Appalachians -- The Taconian-Deformed Basins-The Humber Zone -- Rift-Early Drift -- The St. Lawrence Promontory (Western Newfoundland) -- The Québec Reentrant (Eastern Québec) -- Correlation Western Newfoundland-Québec -- The Passive Margin -- The St. Lawrence Promontory (Western Newfoundland) -- The Québec Reentrant (Eastern Québec) -- Correlation Newfoundland-Québec -- A Regional Sea-Level Scenario for the Lower Paleozoic End-Rift and Passive Margin -- The Taconian Foreland Basin -- The St. Lawrence Promontory (Western Newfoundland) -- The Québec Reentrant (Eastern Québec) -- Correlation Newfoundland-Québec -- The Post-Taconian to Acadian Basins -- Newfoundland -- The Clam Bank Belt -- The Salinic Unconformity and Orogeny in Western Newfoundland -- Continental Eastern Canada -- Late Ordovician-Early Silurian (The R1 Event) -- Early Silurian-Late Silurian (The T1-R2 Events) -- Latest Silurian-Middle Devonian (The T2-R3 Events)
- The Salinic Unconformity and Orogeny (Disturbance) in the Gaspé Belt -- Paleogeographic Reconstruction of the Post-Taconian Basins -- Latest Pridolian/Earliest Lochkovian (Fig. 20) -- Middle Lochkovian (Fig. 21) -- Pragian-Early Emsian (Fig. 22) -- The Sea Level Record in the Lower to Middle Paleozoic Appalachians in Eastern Canada: Eustacy Versus Tectonism -- The Early Cambrian-Late Ordovician Humber Appalachians -- The Late Ordovician to Middle Devonian Acadian Basins -- Hydrocarbon Potential -- Conventional Hydrocarbon Systems -- St. Lawrence Platform -- Background -- Source Rocks -- St. Lawrence Platform Petroleum Plays -- Humber Zone -- Background -- Source Rocks -- Humber Zone Petroleum Plays -- Middle Paleozoic Gaspé Belt -- Background -- Source Rocks -- Gaspé Belt Petroleum Plays -- Shale Gas and Tight Oil Reservoirs -- Utica Shale -- Macasty Shale -- References -- Chapter 4: The Appalachian and Black Warrior Basins: Foreland Basins in the Eastern United States -- Introduction -- Elements and Limits of the Appalachian and Black Warrior Basins -- Influence of Precambrian Events and Basement -- Paleogeographic/Paleoclimatic Framework -- Eustatic Framework -- Flexural Modeling of Foreland-Basin Sedimentation -- Cycle Origins -- Basal Unconformity -- Shallow-Water Transgressive Deposits -- Dark-Mud Sedimentation -- Flysch-Like Sedimentation -- Thin, Regressive, Shallow-Water, Carbonate or Shale Blanket -- Thin, Transgressive, Marine, Precursor Sequence -- Marginal-Marine and Terrestrial Clastic Wedge -- Model Summary and Implications -- Generating the Southeastern Laurentian Margin: Late Precambrian-Middle Cambrian Rifting and Rift Fill (~765 to ~505 M ... -- The Southeastern Laurentian Passive Margin -- Latest Neoproterozoic-Early Ordovician Pericratonic Sedimentation (Sauk Sequence, ~570-470 Ma)
- Two Orogenic Cycles and the Origins of the Appalachian and Black Warrior Foreland Basins -- Middle Ordovician-Early Devonian Caledonian Orogenic Cycle (Tippecanoe Megasequence, 470-411 Ma) -- Taconian Orogeny and Foreland-Basin Sedimentation (Middle Ordovician-Early Silurian, 470 to ~439 Ma) -- Salinic Disturbance and Foreland-Basin Sedimentation (Early-Late Silurian, ~436-421 Ma) -- Helderberg Successor Basins, Transition to the Acadian Orogeny and Related Basin Sedimentation (Latest Silurian-Early Devon ... -- Latest Silurian-Permian Variscan-Hercynian Orogenic Cycle (Kaskaskia and Absaroka Megasequences, 421-265? Ma) -- Acadian Orogeny and Foreland-Basin Sedimentation (Latest Silurian-Late Devonian, 421-359 Ma) -- Neoacadian Orogeny and Foreland-Basin Sedimentation (Latest Devonian-Earliest Pennsylvanian (360-322 Ma) -- Influence of the Ouachita Orogeny (Latest Devonian-Early Pennsylvanian, ~360 to ~320 Ma) -- Alleghanian Orogeny and Foreland-Basin Sedimentation (Early Pennsylvanian-Permian?, 322-265?) -- Alleghanian Mountains Postorogenic Collapse and Extension -- Post-Alleghanian Appalachian Igneous Activity -- Economic Resources and Potential -- Energy Resources and Potential -- Coal -- Coalbed Methane -- Conventional Hydrocarbons -- Unconventional Hydrocarbons -- Carbon Sequestration -- Mineral Resources -- Discussion and Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5: The Paleozoic Western Craton Margin -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- The rifted margin of laurentia -- Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains and Great Basin -- Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories -- The sauk sequence and the cambrian-ordovician shelf-to-basin transition -- The Kicking Horse Rim and Burgess Shale of The Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains -- Northern British Columbia -- Yukon and Northwest Territories -- Great Basin: Nevada, Utah, Idaho
- Middle Ordovician-Early Devonian (Tippecanoe Sequence) -- Northern Canada -- Great Basin -- Grand Cycles -- Lower to Upper Devonian (Kaskaskia-i Sequence) -- Northern Canada -- Peace River Arch -- Ancestral Uinta Uplift -- Great Basin -- Devonian-Mississippian ARC Collisions and Termination of Parts of The "Passive" Laurentian Margin (Kaskaskia-ii Sequence) -- Great Basin -- Western Canada -- Pennsylvanian-Permian (Absaroka i and ii Sequences) -- Triassic-Jurassic: Termination of The "Passive" Continental Margin -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6: The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada: Basin Creation and Destruction During the Paleozoic Assembly of Pangea -- Introduction -- Importance of the Region -- Basement Rocks and Basinal Overview -- Terrane Assembly -- Stratigraphic Terminology -- Overview of Basinal Events -- Gondwanan Glaciation -- Middle to Late Devonian: End of the Acadian Orogeny and Local Extensional Basins -- Termination of the Acadian Orogeny -- Basins and Batholiths -- Late Devonian-Mississippian: A Regional Suite of Extensional Basins -- Piskahegan and Fountain Lake Groups -- Horton and Anguille Groups -- Sussex Group -- Mississippian: Tectonism and Local Basin Filling -- Mississippian: Global Transgression and Thermal Subsidence -- Windsor and Percé Groups -- Mabou Group -- Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity: Tectonism and Onset of a Major Phase of Gondwanan Glaciation -- Bashkirian Faults and Salt Tectonics: First Phase of Coal Measures -- Tectonic Control -- Cumberland Basin: Cumberland Group -- Other Bashkirian (Langsettian) Basins on Major Fault Zones -- Salt Migration -- Moscovian to Permian: Thermally Subsiding Basins and Second Phase of Coal Measures -- Thermal Subsidence -- Cape Breton Island: Morien and Pictou Groups -- Newfoundland -- Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cumberland Basins
- Central Carboniferous Platform of New Brunswick