Principles

Abstract

This chapter will present a brief overview of geologic principles germane to the geologic history of the Cordilleran region. Given the numerous books and websites that cover geologic principles, terminology, and processes, we keep this overview as brief as possible and refer the interested reader to sources that expand on these topics. The references at the end of this book provide a list of sources used to compile the text, maps, and other figures. They also provide additional information to the interested reader, some highly technical and some not so much.