Late Jurassic Tectonics and Paleogeography (145 Ma).

Latest Jurassic (145 Ma)

Major plate reorganization -- change to sinistral motion of Farallon plate relative to North America causes Wrangellia to move southward

Complex series of events at SW margin of North America: Chortis and related terranes shift SE as Atlantic and Proto-Caribbean expand; transform fault and oblique rift systems developed along waning continental arc (McCoy-Bisbee; Mojave-Sonoran megashear); early Franciscan mÈlange formed farther outboard

Nutzotin Ocean between northern Wrangellia and North America remained open

Oblique convergence shut down much of Cordilleran arc