Full Title: Laramide Basement Deformation in the Rocky Mountain Foreland of the Western United States

Editors: Christopher J. Schmidt, Ronald B. Chase, and Eric A. Erslev

Two of the most enduring problems regarding Laramide deformation in the Rocky Mountain foreland are the nature of basement deformation in folds that are observed in the overlying Phanerozoic sedimentary cover, and the kinematic linkage between folding in the cover and faulting in the underlying basement. The 17 papers in this volume address these two problems from the regional, province-wide scale to the scale of a thin section. Collectively, over 50 individual structures are analyzed from southwestern Montana to south-central New Mexico. Most papers are field-oriented studies, but one presents a comprehensive study of seismically imaged foreland folds and faults. Another provides a regional tectonic analysis. The pocket plates include a 1:48,000-scale transect across the Wyoming segment of the foreland.

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Published: 11/02/1993

ISBN Number: 0813722802

Pages: 365

Product Category: EBooks