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GSA Special Papers
Laramide Basement Deformation in the Rocky Mountain Foreland of the Western United States
Geological Society of America

Volume
280
Copyright:
© 1993 Geological Society of America
Geological Society of America
ISBN print:
9780813722801
Publication date:
January 01, 1993
Book Chapter
Deformation of basement in basement-involved, compressive structures
Author(s)
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Published:January 01, 1993
Understanding the kinematic development of basement-involved compressive structures that form at low temperature is dependent, in part, on gaining a better factual understanding of their deformational behavior. Results presented here show that the response of crystalline basement to deformation is incongruous among different structures in Colorado and Wyoming. At Big Thompson anticline and Rattlesnake Mountain anticline, Precambrian basement was not rotated in the anticlinal hinge during Tertiary folding. At both Banner Mountain and at a minor fold on Casper Mountain the basement has been rotated near the anticlinal hinge by as much as 26°. In the steep limb of all...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- anticlines
- basement
- Bighorn Mountains
- Casper Mountain
- Colorado
- compression tectonics
- crystalline rocks
- deformation
- faults
- folds
- foliation
- kinematics
- Laramide Orogeny
- low temperature
- North America
- orientation
- Rattlesnake Mountain
- Rocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains foreland
- stress
- tectonics
- temperature
- thrust faults
- U. S. Rocky Mountains
- United States
- Wyoming
- Five Springs Creek
- Banner Mountain
- Big Thompson Anticline
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