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Paleomagnetism And Rotation History Of The Blue Mountains, Oregon, Usa, Bernard A. Housen
Paleomagnetism And Rotation History Of The Blue Mountains, Oregon, Usa, Bernard A. Housen
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An important element in reconstructions of the Cordilleran margin of North America includes longstanding debate regarding the timing and amount of rotation of the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon, and the origin of geometric features such as the Columbia Embayment, which was a subject of some of Bill Dickinson’s early research. Suppositions of significant clockwise rotation of the Blue Mountains derived from Dickinson’s work were confirmed in the 1980s by paleomagnetic results from Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous plutonic rocks, and secondary directions from Permian–Triassic units of the Wallowa–Seven Devils arc that indicate ~60° clockwise rotation of the Blue Mountains.
This study …