Small-volume Late Cretaceous monogenetic alkaline volcanism along the southern margin of North America resulted in a broad igneous belt more than 1200 km long from the Trans Pecos region of west Texas to central Mississippi, collectively forming a northern Gulf of Mexico magmatic zone (NGMMZ). The locus of igneous activity is associated with the discontinuity separating Mesoproterozoic cratonic...

s (underlined = graduate student; * = postdoctoral scholar) [128] Anderson, R.B., Long, S.P., Horton, B.K., Calle, A., and Stockli, D.F., 2014, New apatite and zircon (UTh)/He constraints on the timing of thrust-related exhumation in the southern Bolivian (21 ̊S) Andes: AGU Fall Meeting. [127] Barber, D., Stockli, D.F., Koshnaw, R.I., Horton, B.K., and Kendall, J.J., 2014, Detrital zircon U-Pb a...

The Laramide orogeny is the Late Cretaceous to Palaeocene (80^55 Ma) orogenic event that gave rise to the Rocky Mountain fold and thrust belt in Canada, the Laramide block uplifts in the USA, and the Sierra Madre Oriental fold and thrust belt in Mexico. The leading model for driving Laramide orogenesis in the USA is flat-slab subduction, whereby stress coupling of a subhorizontal oceanic slab t...

ABSTRACT The late Paleozoic to Triassic was an important interval for the East Kunlun–Qaidam area, northern Tibet, as it witnessed prolonged subduction of South Kunlun Ocean, a major branch Paleo-Tethys Ocean whose closure led formation Pangea. However, geologic history this stage is poorly constrained due paucity tectonothermal signatures preserved during magmatic lull. This article presents s...

Abstract The “Rinkian belt” of West Greenland is a metamorphic terrain Paleoproterozoic age comprising: (1) the north Rinkian fold-thrust belt (FTB)—a pro- or fore-arc domain, highly deformed and metamorphosed with widespread anatexis; (2) Prøven Igneous Complex—a magmatic arc characterized by hypersthene granitic rocks (“charnockites”); (3) south FTB—an inverted back-arc basin; 4) continental ...

[1] We measure all stable noble gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) in spring waters in the Oregon Cascades volcanic arc and in eastern Oregon, USA. We show that in order to estimate magmatic helium (He) contributions it is critical to simultaneously consider He isotopic ratios, He concentrations, and mixing of He components. Our component mixing analysis requires consideration of all measured noble gas...

In this work, we present the results of a petrographic and geochemical study that involves seven Cenozoic plutons located in NS trending belt western Patagonia, south Chile Triple-Junction to east magmatic arc. Four were studied northern end, three southern part belt. The characteristics (major trace element contents, eNdt, 87Sr/86Sr initial ratios), these are different enough propose further c...