Principles of practical tectonic analysis of cratonic regions, with particular reference to Western North America / Принципы практического тектонического анализа кратонных регионов, с особым упором на западную часть Северной Америки.

Most of the North American continent is underlain by long-cratonized crust. However, the geologists’, geochemists’ and geophysicists’ attention is mainly focused on the surrounding mobile megabelts. Only few publications consider the North American craton as a whole and attempt to review its entire history from the Late Archean to the present. Even in the last, as yet unfinished synopsis, created under the label Decade of North American Geology (DNAG), the geology of the craton is divided between volumes separately considering the Canadian Shield and cratonic platforms, platformal cover and basement, in the U.S. and Canada. <...>