Plates off Pacific NW
Cascadia Subduction Zone
Calif. Coast Ranges
San Andreas fault
British Columbia
Columbia Plateaus
Sierra Nevada:

batholith

support

Mesozoic tectonics
Cenozoic uplift:
geomorphology

•isotopes

Mojave Desert lithosphere
Basin and Range:

Precambrian

Core complexes

Wasatch Front:
  Mesozoic thrusts
 

Cenozoic thrusts

Colorado Plateau
  Paleoelevation
  Crustal Structure
Southern Rocky Mtns:

Paleozoic

Laramide start
Co. Mineral Belt
Laramide/Sevier

San Juan Mtns

Cenozoic elevation:
• Isotopes

• Paleontology

Rio Grande Rift
Great Plains

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