تجبل لاراميد

تجبل لاراميد Laramide orogeny، هو أحدث مراحل الثورة الألبية، نشطت خلال نهاية العصر الطباشيري والثالث المبكر، مسجلة بوضوح سلسلة جبال روكي في غرب أمريكا الشمالية.

The Laramide orogeny was caused by subduction of a plate at a shallow angle.

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 الأحواض والجبال

Topographic map of the Bighorn Basin (highlighted in orange), formed by the Laramide Orogeny

 انظر أيضا

• The earlier Sevier orogeny
• The still-earlier Nevadan orogeny of the late Jurassic — early Cretaceous.
• Geology of the Rocky Mountains
• Geology of the Pacific Northwest

 المصادر

• English, Joseph M.; Johnston, Stephen T. (2004). "The Laramide Orogeny: What Were the Driving Forces?". International Geology Review. 46: 833–838. doi:10.2747/0020-6814.46.9.833.
• Lehman, T. M. (2001). "Late Cretaceous dinosaur provinciality". In Tanke, D. H.; Carpenter, K. (eds.). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press. pp. 310–328. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Liu, L.; Gurnis, M.; Seton, M.; Saleeby, J.; Müller, R.D.; Jackson, J.M. (2010). "The role of oceanic plateau subduction in the Laramide orogeny" (PDF). Nature Geoscience. 3 (5): 353–357. doi:10.1038/ngeo829.
• Richard F. Livaccari, Kevin Burke, and AMC Sengor (1981). "Was the Laramide orogeny related to subduction of an oceanic plateau?". Nature. 289 (5795): 276–278. doi:10.1038/289276a0.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Saleeby, Jason (2003). "Segmentation of the Laramide Slab -- Evidence from the southern Sierra Nevada region". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 115: 655–668.
• W. P. Schellart, D. R. Stegman, R. J. Farrington, J. Freeman, and L. Moresi (16 July 2010). "Cenozoic Tectonics of Western North America Controlled by Evolving Width of Farallon Slab". Science. 329 (5989): 316–319. doi:10.1126/science.1190366. PMID 20647465.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Willis, Grant C. (2000). "I thought that was the Laramide orogeny!". Utah's Sevier Thrust System. Utah Geological Survey. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

 وصلات خارجية

	بوابة Earth sciences
	بوابة Paleontology

• Maps, animation, detailed information (UCLA)
• U. Wisconsin article