Product Code: MWR209 (Memoir 209)
The Miocene Columbia River flood basalt province covers ~210
The chapters in this Memoir provide syntheses of current understanding of the geologic evolution of Laurentia and North America
concentrating on feedback mechanisms within ancient and evolving orogens by which individual or linked tectonic processes may influence or predetermine the operation of other processes in space and time
attention focused on how disposal of large volumes of brine from oil production could trigger earthquakes
The Columbia River Flood Basalt Province 1-1-001-322-4330-322 Product Code: MWR209 (Memoir 209)Editors: Stephen P. Reidel, Victor E. Camp, Martin E. Ross, John A. Wolff, Barton S. Martin, Terry L. Tolan, and Ray E. Wells Buy the e book (not available in print) The Miocene Columbia River flood basalt province covers ~210,000 km2 of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and forms part of a larger volcanic region that also includes contemporaneous silicic centers in northern Nevada, the basaltic and time transgressive rhyolitic volcanic