Research Catalog

Title

Paleotectonics and sedimentation in the Rocky Mountain Region, United States / edited by James A. Peterson.

Publication

Tulsa, Okla. : American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Peterson, James A.
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Description

ix, 693 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.

Series Statement

AAPG memoir ; 41

Uniform Title

Memoir (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) ; 41.

Alternative Title

Paleotectonics & sedimentation

Subject

• Geology > Rocky Mountains > Congresses
• Geology > West (U.S.) > Congresses
• Paleogeography > Rocky Mountains > Congresses
• Paleogeography > West (U.S.) > Congresses
• Geology
• Paleogeography
• Geologie
• Paläogeografie
• Kongress
• Tectônica de placas > Estados unidos
• Sedimentologia > Estados unidos
• Geologia histórica > Estados unidos
• Géologie > Rocheuses, Montagnes (États-Unis) > Congrès
• Paléogéographie > Rocheuses, Montagnes (États-Unis) > Congrès
• Rocky Mountains
• West United States
• USA
• USA

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Spine title: Paleotectonics & sedimentation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Rocky Mountain paleogeography through geologic time / James A. Peterson, Donald L. Smith -- Influence of tectonic terranes adjacent to the Precambrian Wyoming province on Phanerozoic stratigraphy in the Rocky Mountain region / John J. Tonnsen -- Lineaments and their tectonic implications in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent plains region / Edwin K. Maughan, William J. Perry Jr. -- General stratigraphy and regional paleotectonics of the western Montana overthrust belt / James A. Peterson -- Sedimentation and tectonics of the Middle Proterozoic belt basin and their influence on Phanerozoic compression and extension in western Montana and northern Idaho / Donald Winston -- The Lemhi Arch : a late Proterozoic and early Paleozoic landmass in central Idaho / Edward T. Ruppel -- Syntectonic conglomerates in southwestern Montana : their nature, origin, and tectonic significance (with an update) / Robert T. Ryder, Robert Scholten -- Paleotectonic implications of arkose beds in park shale (Middle Cambrian), Bridger Range, south-central Montana / Jenny C. Fryxell, Donald L. Smith -- Structural influences on Cretaceous sedimentation, northern Great Plains / Lawrence O. Anna -- Paleotectonic controls on deposition of the Niobrara Formation, Eagle sandstone, and equivalent rocks (Upper Cretaceous), Montana and South Dakota / George W. Shurr, Dudley D. Rice -- Cedar Creek : a significant paleotectonic feature of the Williston Basin / James H. Clement -- Tectonic development of Idaho-Wyoming thrust belt / Frank C. Armstrong, Steven S. Oriel -- Thrusting and synorogenic sedimentation in central Utah / Alain Villien, Roy M. Kligfield -- The influence of preexisting tectonic trends on geometries of the Sevier orogenic belt and its foreland in Utah / Frank Picha -- Geometry, distribution, and provenance of tectogenic conglomerates along the southern margin of the Wind River Range, Wyoming / James R. Steidtmann [and others] -- Tectonics and sedimentology of Uinta Arch, western Uinta Mountains and Uinta Basin / Ronald L. Bruhn, M. Dane Picard, John S. Isby -- Plate tectonics of the ancestral Rocky Mountains / Charles F. Kluth -- Post-Mississippian paleotectonic, stratigraphic, and diagenetic history of the Weber sandstone in the Rangely Field area, Colorado / Mark H. Koelmel -- Relationship of unconformities, tectonics, and sea level changes in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior, United States / Robert J. Weimar -- Fluvial systems of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group and Paleocene North Horn Formation, central Utah : a record of transition from thin-skinned to thick-skinned deformation in the foreland region / Timothy F. Lawton -- Biostratigraphic units and tectonism in the mid-Cretaceous foreland of Wyoming, Colorado, and adjoining areas / E.A. Merewether, W.A. Cobban -- Subtle middle Cretaceous paleotectonic deformation of Frontier and lower Cody rocks in Wyoming / William H. Curry III -- Laramide tectonics and deposition of the Ferris and Hanna formations, south-central Wyoming / Dan E. Hansen -- The Upper Cretaceous Vernal Delta of Utah -- depositional or paleotectonic feature? / Thomas A Ryer, Jon R. Lovekin -- The Paradox : a pull-apart basin of Pennsylvanian age / G.M. Stevenson, D.L. Baars -- Minturn and Sangre de Cristo formations of southern Colorado -- a prograding fan delta and alluvial fan sequence shed from the ancestral Rocky Mountains / David A. Lindsey, Reino F. Clark, Sandra J. Soulliere -- Jurassic paleotectonics in the west-central part of the Colorado Plateau, Utah and Arizona / Fred Peterson -- Structurally controlled sediment distribution patterns in the Jurassic Morrison Formation of northwestern New Mexico and their relationship to uranium deposits / Alan R. Kirk, Steven M. Condon -- Eocene depositional systems and tectonic framework of west-central New Mexico and eastern Arizona / Steven M. Cather, Bruce D. Johnson -- Paleozoic paleotectonics and sedimentation in Arizona and New Mexico / Charles A. Ross, June R.P. Ross -- Laramide paleotectonics of southern New Mexico / William R. Seager, Greg H. Mack.

ISBN

• 0891813195
• 9780891813194

LCCN

86017467

OCLC

• ocm13860458
• 13860458
• SCSB-1162574

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library