By Gerd E. G. Westermann
During this paintings, sixty experts assembled to debate the nearby occurrences of Jurassic rocks round the Pacific rim. The tectonic atmosphere, stratigraphical sequences, and fossil assemblages of the quarter are coated intimately; neighborhood biozones in keeping with palynonorphs, protistans, crops and invertebrates are outlined; and super-regional average zones in accordance with ammonites are tested. quite a few tables are used to rfile and illustrate intra- and intercontinental circum-Pacific correlations, and a wide atlas illustrates greater than 1,000 circum-Pacific index fossils.
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1982; Price et al. 1985), at approximately 180 Ma as plutons stitched the Quesnellia-North America suture (Armstrong 1988). ) in the north (Templeman-Kluit 1979a,b), and by the late Oxfordian turbidites of the Fernie Group (Price et al. 1985) in the south. Initiation of the east-facing Quesnellia/Yukon-Tanana arc that resulted in the closure of the Slide Mountain back-arc basin appears to have begun near the Permo-Triassic boundary (—246 Ma)(Erdmer and Armstrong 1988), at least in the north, and thus to have predated the suturing of Stikinia and Quesnellia in the Late Triassic to the pre-Middle Jurassic (—176 Ma).
The Jurassic of the Circum-Pacific (World and Regional Geology) by Gerd E. G. Westermann