Application of field, sedimentologic, geochronologic, paleontologic, petrologic, geochemical, and paleomagnetic data to the evolution of sedimentary basins and the tectonic development of the North ...

The Michigan Basin is a bowl-shaped region in central North America that includes Michigan and its surrounding Great Lakes. The basin contains a sedimentary rock record of up to 5 km (16,000 ft) of ...

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive basin environments where sedimentary rocks are deposited ... In the past, virtually the entire North American continent has been underwater.

The Yellowstone region's Beartooth Mountains feature some of the most ancient rocks in North America — as old as 3.96 billion ...

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...