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Sheetflood sedimentology of the Mesoproterozoic Revett Formation, Belt Supergroup, northwestern Montana, USA
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Don Winston
Don Winston
Professor Emeritus, Geoscience Department, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59821, USA
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Published:September 01, 2016
The ca. 1.460 Ga Revett Formation is a gray and purple quartzite lithosome in northwestern Montana, and it interfingers eastward into red argillite of the Grinnell Formation in Glacier National Park. The Revett Formation was analyzed in northwestern Montana by identifying sedimentary structures in stratigraphic sections and by interpreting flow processes of the structures using the standard flow regime model (e.g., Simons et al., 1965). The sedimentary structures and thicknesses of the event beds were then organized into eight sediment types (lithofacies) that were grouped into three sediment complexes: the playa complex, the antidune complex, and the sheet sand complex....
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Belt Basin: Window to Mesoproterozoic Earth
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John S. MacLean;
John S. MacLean
Department of Physical Science, Southern Utah University, 351 W. University Boulevard, Cedar City, Utah 84720, USA
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James W. Sears
James W. Sears
Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive #1296, Missoula, Montana 59812-1296, USA
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522
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September 01, 2016
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- argillite
- Belt Supergroup
- clastic rocks
- clastic sediments
- depositional environment
- eolian features
- Glacier National Park
- lithofacies
- Mesoproterozoic
- Montana
- North America
- playas
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- Revett Quartzite
- sand
- sand sheets
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentology
- sediments
- United States
- upper Precambrian
- Grinnell Formation
- sheetfloods
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