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Ores and Orogenesis: Circum-Pacific Tectonics, Geologic Evolution, and Ore Deposits.

JON E. SPENCER and SPENCER R. TITLEY, Editors. Pp. 618. 2008. Arizona Geological Society, Digest 22. ISBN-10: 978-1-891924-10-1. Price US$75.00.

U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225

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This publication was born out of an Arizona Geological Society meeting with the same title, held in October 2007, and consists of 45 papers representing a fraction of the material presented at the meeting. The compilation is dedicated to William R. (Bill) Dickinson, emeritus professor of geology at the University of Arizona, who was one of the first geologists to recognize and promote the inter-relationship between tectonics and ore deposit formation. The editors proclaim the volume to be a measure of the current level of cross-pollination between and advancement within the fields of tectonics and economic geology.

As the title suggests, the papers within the volume cover a broad range of tectonics and ore deposits studies, from the global to deposit scale. Thus, this 618-page-long book is divided into six sections, with a large-scale Pacific margins, orogenesis, and metallogeny section; an exploration, mining and modeling section; and four other sections, each of which contains papers on one of the four quadrants of the circum-Pacific orogenic belts. Even within the individual sections, as outlined below, the range of topics is exceptionally broad.

Five papers make up the first section, which opens with a paper by Dickinson that outlines basic observations of the current configuration of circum-Pacific orogenic belts and sets the stage for reconstructing older, dissected belts based on these observations. Kerrich et al. present a summary paper of metallogenic provinces of North America through super-continent assembly and breakup, and Sengor et al. propose potential for strata-bound . . . [Full Text of this Article]