Table of Contents

Part I: Earth Systems and Our National Parks
Chapter 1: Plate Tectonics
Chapter 2: Geological Features and Processes
Part II: Divergent Plate Boudnaries
Chapter 3: Continental Rifts
Chapter 4: Passive Continental Margins
Basin and Range Province
Keweenawan Rift
Colorado Plateau
Part III: Convergent Plate Boundaries
Chapter 5: Subduction Zones
Chapter 6: Collisional Mountain Ranges
Cascadia Subduction Zone
Appalachian/Ouachita/Marathon
Part IV: Transform Plate Boundaries
Chapter 7: San Andreas and Other Transform Boundaries
San Andreas Fault Zone
Caribbean
Part V: Hotspots
Chapter 8: Oceanic Hotspots
Chapter 9: Hotspots Beneath Continental Crust
Hawai'i
Yellowstone/Snake River Plain/Columbia Plateau
Part VI: Building the North American Continent
Chapter 10: North American Craton
Chapter 11: Accreted Terranes
Continental Shield
Continental Platform
Colorado Plateau
Laramide Uplifts
Foreland Fold-and-Thrust-Belts
Accreted Terranes

About the Author

Robert J. Lillie (Ph.D. Cornell ) is professor of geosciences at Oregon State University. His research explores crustal structure and geologic evolution in Alaska, Europe and Asia. He is the author of Whole Earth Geophysics and has written and illustrated numerous geology training manuals for National Park Service sites.