Laurentia

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Laurentia is written by Steven J. Whitmeyer and published by Geological Society of America. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813712203 (ISBN 10) and 9780813712208 (ISBN 13).

"This Memoir focuses on 7 'turning points' that had specific and lasting impacts on Laurentian evolution: The Neoarchean, characterized by cratonization; the Paleoproterozoic and the initial assembly of Laurentia; the Mesoproterozoic southern margin of Laurentia; the Midcontinent rift and the Grenville orogeny; the Neoproterozoic breakup of Rodinia; the mid-Paleozoic phases of the Appalachian-Caledonian orogen; and the Jurassic-Paleogene assembly of the North American Cordillera"--