The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America: Tectonics, Structure and Volcanism v.1: Tectonics, Structure and Volcanism Vol 1 Book

The breakup of the Pangean supercontinent in the Triassic-Jurassic age left great rift basins containing an extraordinary record of the physical and biological conditions which precipitated a major extinction event at the time. These basins collectively form a rift province called the Central Atlantic Margin (CAM), which spans more than 45 degrees of paleolatitude and records over 35 million years of Earth history. Leading experts LeTourneau and Olsen present a detailed review of the rift province´s geology, paleobiology, and geophysics. This data is very important for current investigators interested in climate and biotic change and important to topics as diverse as extensional tectonics, astronomical forcing of climate, the evolution of early mammals, and the appearance and diversification of dinosaurs. Volume 1 gives a thorough review and highlights recent advances in our understanding of the structural geology, tectonics, and volcanisms of CAM.