The book commences with a summary of the Phanerozoic geological history of the United States and Canada, illustrated with a suite of new paleogeographic maps, and tying in each of the subsequent regional chapters by the inclusion of numerous cross-references.

This followed by a set of fifteen regional syntheses of the principal tectonic regions of the United States and Canada, focusing on the stratigraphic and tectonic history of the major sedimentary basins.
Most of these chapters have been contributed by specialists, drawing on their own research, and providing interpretive summaries of a type not previously attempted.

Contents
Contributors
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Iternational Stratigraphic Chart
1 The Phanerozoic Tectonic and Sedimentary Evolution of North America
2 Phanerozoic Evolution of the Sedimentary Cover of the North American Craton
3 Appalachian Foreland Basin of Canada
4 The Appalachian Foreland Basin in Eastern United States
5 The Paleozoic Western Craton Margin
6 The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada: Basin Creation and Destruction in the Collisional Zone of Pangea
7 Pennsylvanian-Jurassic Sedimentary Basins of the Colorado Plateau and Southern Rocky Mountains
8 The Southern Midcontinent, Permian Basin, and Ouachitas
9 The Western Interior Basin
10 Cordilleran Sedimentary Basins of Western Canada Record 180 Million Years of Terrane Accretion
11 Subduction-Related Sedimentary Basins of the USA Cordillera
12 Laramide Sedimentary Basins
13 Sverdrup Basin
14 The Atlantic Margin Basins of North America
15 Depositional Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin
16 Geology of the Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Canada
17 Postscript: What have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here?
Index

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