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Title The terrane puzzle : new perspectives on paleontology and stratigraphy from the North American cordillera / edited by Robert B. Blodgett, George D. Stanley, Jr
Published Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2008

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Description viii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Series Special paper ; 442
Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 442
Contents Paleogeographic significance of Ediacaran cyclomedusoids within the Antelope Mountain Quartzite, Yreka terrane, eastern Klamath Mountains, California -- Silurian-bearing terranes of Alaska -- Silurian gastropoda from the Alexander terrane, southeast Alaska -- Provenance, depositional setting, and tectonic implications of Silurian polymictic conglomerates in Alaska's Alexander terrane -- Devonian brachiopods of southwesternmost Laurentia: Biogeographic affinities and tectonic significance -- Devonian brachiopods from northeastern Washington: evidence for a non-allochthonous terrane and Late Devonian biogeographic update -- Paleobiogeographic affinities of Emsian (late Early Devonian) gastropods from Farewell terrane (west-central Alaska) -- Significance of detrital zircons in Upper Devonian ocean-basin strata of the Sonora allochthon and Lower Permian synorogenic strata of the Mina México foredeep, central Sonora, México -- The flora, fauna, and sediments of the Mount Dall Conglomerate (Farewell terrane, Alaska, USA) -- Late Triassic silicified shallow-water corals and other marine fossils from Wrangellia and the Alexander terrane, Alaska, and Vancouver Island, British Columbia -- Conodont biostratigraphy and facies correlations in a Late Triassic island are, Keku Strait, southeast Alaska -- Stratigraphy of the Triassic Martin Bridge Formation, Wallowa terrane: stratigraphy and depositional setting -- Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian) mixed carbonate-volcaniclastic facies of the Olds Ferry terrane, eastern Oregon and western Idaho -- Early Jurassic bivalves of the Antimonio terrane (Sonora, NW México): taxonomy, biogeography, and paleogeographic implications -- Dinosaurs of Alaska: implications for the Cretaceous origin of Beringia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Paleontology -- North American Cordillera.
Paleontology, Stratigraphic.
Geology, Stratigraphic -- North American Cordillera.
Paleogeography -- North American Cordillera.
Author Blodgett, Robert B.
Stanley, George D.
LC no. 2008015342
ISBN 9780813724423 paperback
0813724422 paperback