Basement domain map of the conterminous United States and Alaska

Abstract

Basement Domain Map of the Conterminous United States and AlaskaCover: Isoclinally folded Paleoproterozoic tonalite orthogneiss from newly identified Wallace domain basement, northern Idaho.For more information on the USGS-the Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment, visit http://www.usgs.gov or call 1-888-ASK-USGS.For an overview of USGS information products, including maps, imagery, and publications, visit http://www.usgs.gov/pubprodTo order this and other USGS information products, visit

State of stress in the Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico: Implications for induced seismicity

“…As labeled in Figure 3, a number of regional-scale faults are known to exist in this area (Walper, 1977;Shumaker, 1992;Yang and Dorobek, 1995). The Permian Basin overlies a major boundary separating Precambrian-age lithospheric basement domains (Lund et al, 2015), and its crystalline "basement" hosts numerous major…”

“…Blue lines are fault traces known to have experienced normal-sense offset within the past 1.6 Ma, from the USGS Quaternary Faults and Folds Database (Crone and Wheeler, 2000). The boundary between the Shawnee and Mazatzal basement domains is from Lund et al (2015), and the Precambrian Grenville Front is from Thomas (2006). The Permian Basin boundary is from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and the subbasin boundaries are from the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Permian Basin Geological Synthesis Project.…”

Investigations on the Mesozoic Geologic and Tectonic History of the Jackson Mountains, Northwest Nevada

“…3.1) (e.g. Miller et al, 1992;Saleeby & Busby-Spera, 1992;Dickinson, 2004;Dickinson, 2006;Colpron, Nelson, & Murphy, 2007;Lund et al, 2015). Some represent intraoceanic arcs that evolved at unknown distances from the continent (i.e.…”

“…Though correlations have been suggested (e.g. Dickinson, 2004;Dorsey & LaMaskin, 2007;Dorsey & LaMaskin, 2008;LaMaskin et al, 2011;Lund et al, 2015;Kurz et al, 2016), in most cases the lack of robust biostratigraphy, geochronology, geochemistry, and structural data limits these interpretations. The Jackson Mountains, Several previous studies have looked at the geology of the Jackson Mountains and provide the foundation for this study (Willden, 1958;.…”

“…Throughout the North American Cordillera, assemblages of plutonic, volcanic, and volcanogenic sedimentary rocks have been interpreted to represent portions of volcanic arc terranes and their associated arc-related basins (e.g. Miller et al, 1992;Saleeby & Busby-Spera, 1992;DeCelles, 2004;Dickinson, 2004;Dickinson, 2006;Colpron et al, 2007;Lund et al, 2015). Some of these terranes may represent intraoceanic arcs that evolved at some unknown distance from the continent while others may have formed continental or continental-fringing arcs (e.g.…”