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1 Cretaceous Period: Environmental and Tectonic Events Sea Level and Cratonic Sequences Cretaceous Paleogeography Western Margin Tectonics Why does Deformation Migrate Eastward? Sevier Orogeny
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Cretaceous Period:Environmental and
Tectonic Events
Sea Level and Cratonic Sequences
Cretaceous Paleogeography Western MarginTectonics
Why doesDeformation
MigrateEastward?
Sevier Orogeny
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Sevier Orogeny and Thrust FaultingWhere did
sediments fromSevier Orogeny
Accumulate?
Clastic Wedges Revisited! Cretaceous Climate
Larson, 1991
Ocean CrustFormation and
Climate
Changes inthe Rate ofSeafloor
Spreading
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Spreading Rates and Weathering:Feedback!
CO2 Feedbacks with Weathering