{"id":2472,"date":"2019-10-02T19:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/shop\/the-place-of-the-great-basin-in-the-cordilleran-orogen\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:17:46","slug":"the-place-of-the-great-basin-in-the-cordilleran-orogen","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/shop\/the-place-of-the-great-basin-in-the-cordilleran-orogen\/","title":{"rendered":"The place of the Great Basin in the Cordilleran orogen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Basin lies near the center of the Cordilleran orogen, midway between<br \/>\nthe Pacific coast and the Great Plains, andGreat Basin geologic history was influenced<br \/>\nby events in both the outer and the inner Cordillera. The current configuration of the<br \/>\nGreat Basin stems from Neogene crustal extension within the Basin and Range Province<br \/>\nand strike slip along the Walker Lane splay of the San Andreas transform.<br \/>\nPre-Neogene phases of Great Basin evolution included (a) passive-margin deposition<br \/>\nof the early Paleozoic Cordilleran miogeocline after the Neoproterozoic breakup of<br \/>\nRodinia, (b) late Paleozoic overthrusting of oceanic allochthons over the miogeocline<br \/>\nfrom the west as subduction complexes of island arcs that accreted to the edge of the<br \/>\ncontinental block, (c)Triassic initiation of theCordilleranmagmatic arc along an activated<br \/>\ncontinental margin, (d) Middle to Late Jurassic backarc thrusting and<br \/>\nmagmatism induced by plate interactions related to Jurassic accretion of intraoceanic<br \/>\nisland arcs to the Cordilleran margin, (e) Backarc Cretaceous to Paleogene Sevier<br \/>\nthrusting, and coordinate uplift of the elevated Nevadaplano, (f) Laramide<br \/>\nmagmatism that swept eastward during an interval of shallow slab subduction, and<br \/>\n(g) migratory resumption of arc magmatism as slab dip recovered after a Laramide<br \/>\nnull in magmatism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":""},"product_cat":[154],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsnv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}