Magmatism, migrating topography, and the transition from Sevier shortening to Basin and Range extension, western United States

JEL Snee, EL Miller - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The paleogeographic evolution of the western US Great Basin from the Late Cretaceous to
the Cenozoic is critical to understanding how the North American Cordillera at this latitude …

An overview of strains in the Sevier thin-skinned thrust belt, Idaho and Wyoming, USA (latitude 42 N)

JP Craddock, DH Malone - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Calcite twinning analysis across the central, unbuttressed portion of the Sevier thin-skin
thrust belt, using Cambrian–Cretaceous limestones (n= 121) and synorogenic calcite veins …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

Provenance of early Paleogene strata in the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, USA): Implications for Laramide tectonism and basin-scale stratigraphic patterns

JL Welch, BZ Foreman, D Malone, J Craddock - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, USA) contains some of the most extensively
exposed and studied nonmarine early Paleogene strata in the world. Over a century of …

Linking the Gulf of Mexico and Coast Mountains batholith during late Paleocene time: Insights from Hf isotopes in detrital zircons

ME Pecha, MD Blum, GE Gehrels, KE Sundell… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT Paleocene Lower Wilcox Group sedimentation rates are three times the
Cenozoic average for the Gulf of Mexico region and are attributed to Laramide tectonism …

Timing and structural evolution of the Sevier thrust belt, western Wyoming

DH Malone, JP Craddock, A Konstantinou - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The results of new detrital zircon analyses of 15 (n= 1334) Sevier belt synorogenic (Jurassic–
Eocene) conglomerates combined with U-Pb zircon ages from the literature (n= 2638) …

Evidence for large departures from lithostatic pressure during Late Cretaceous metamorphism in the northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada

C Hoiland, J Hourigan, E Miller - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The highest-grade Barrovian-type metamorphic rocks of the North American Cordillera
exposed today are Late Cretaceous in age and found within an orogen-parallel belt of …

Geologic map of the Bald Mountain Quadrangle, northern Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

M Sell, A Krieger, M Huisman, D Malone - 2023 - archives.datapages.com
Here we present the results of detailed (1: 24,000 scale) mapping of the Bald Mountain 7.5
Minute Quadrangle Wyoming, which includes Archean basement rocks of the Laramide …

Deformation of the European Plate (58-0 Ma): Evidence from calcite twinning strains

JP Craddock, U Ring, OA Pfiffner - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
We present a data set of calcite twinning strain results (n= 209 samples; 9919 measured
calcite twins) from the internal Alpine nappes northwestward across the Alps and Alpine …

Zircon petrochronology of Cretaceous Cordilleran interior granites of the Snake Range and Kern Mountains, Nevada, USA

ES Gottlieb, EL Miller, JW Valley, CM Fisher… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We addressed fundamental questions about the lithology, age, structure, and thermal
evolution of the deep crust of the retroarc hinterland of the North American Cordilleran …