The Cordilleran Miogeosyncline in North America
Lyatsky, Vadim B. / Lyatsky, Henry V.![The Cordilleran Miogeosyncline in North America](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/156/15608651/CHSBZCOP0315608651.jpg)
Steep crustal-scale faults, having their origins in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic and trending NE-SW, which define the fundamental block lithospheric structure of the North American craton, are seen from geological and geophysical evidence to continue far into the interior of the Late Proterozoic-Phanerozoic Canadian Cordilleran mobile megabelt. This suggests that variously reworked ex-cratonic basement blocks underlie much of the Cor...