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Tectonic influence on axial-transverse sediment routing in the Denver Basin

Author(s)

Glenn R. Sharman

Glenn R. Sharman

Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA

Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

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Daniel F. Stockli

Daniel F. Stockli

Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

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Peter Flaig

Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

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Robert G. Raynolds

Robert G. Raynolds

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, Colorado 80205, USA

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Marieke Dechesne

Marieke Dechesne

Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA

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Jacob A. Covault

Jacob A. Covault

Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

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Doi:

https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2555(11)

Published:

May 03, 2022

ABSTRACT

Detrital zircon U-Pb and (U-Th)/He ages from latest Cretaceous–Eocene strata of the Denver Basin provide novel insights into evolving sediment sourcing, recycling, and dispersal patterns during deposition in an intracontinental foreland basin. In total, 2464 U-Pb and 78 (U-Th)/He analyses of detrital zircons from 21 sandstone samples are presented from outcrop and drill core in the proximal and distal portions of the Denver Basin. Upper Cretaceous samples that predate uplift of the southern Front Range during the Laramide orogeny (Pierre Shale, Fox Hills Sandstone, and Laramie Formation) contain prominent Late Cretaceous (84–77 Ma), Jurassic (169–163 Ma), and Proterozoic (1.69–1.68...

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Tectonic Evolution of the Sevier-Laramide Hinterland, Thrust Belt, and Foreland, and Postorogenic Slab Rollback (180–20 Ma)

GSA Special Papers

Tectonic Evolution of the Sevier-Laramide Hinterland, Thrust Belt, and Foreland, and Postorogenic Slab Rollback (180–20 Ma)
CONTAINS OPEN ACCESS

Editor(s)

Geological Society of America

Volume

555

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE555

Copyright:

© The Authors

Open Access. Gold Open Access: This chapter is published under the terms of the CC-BY license.

ISBN electronic:

9780813795553

ISBN print:

9780813725550

Publication date:

May 03, 2022

This Special Paper focuses on the evolution of the crust of the hinterland of the orogen during the orogenic cycle, and describes the evolution of the crust and basins at metamorphic core complexes. The volume includes a regional study of the Sevier-Laramide orogens in the Wyoming province, a regional seismic study, strain analysis of Sevier and Laramide deformation, and detrital zircon provenance from the Pacific Coast to the foreland between the Jurassic and the Eocene.