Full Title: Interaction of the Rocky Mountain Foreland and the Cordilleran Thrust Belt
Editors: Christopher J. Schmidt and William J. Perry Jr.
Focuses on the interaction of structures of Cordilleran thrust belt origin with those of the adjacent or subjacent Rocky Mountain foreland. The first five chapters summarize the tectonic styles of the Rocky Mountain (Wyoming) foreland, primarily in terms of Laramide crustal shortening. The next five chapters focus on general or comparative studies of interaction and/or overlap between Laramide-style (thick-skin, crustal-scale) deformation of the foreland and dominantly thin-skin, Sevier-style deformation of the Cordilleran thrust belt. Seventeen following chapters chiefly look at interaction and overlap geometries: nine deal entirely with areas and regions north of the Snake River downwarp; seven with areas within the Wyoming salient of the thrust belt; one looks at the paleomagnetic evidence of thrust-sheet rotations both north and south of the downwarp around both margins of the southwestern Montana recess of the Cordilleran thrust belt; and one looks at the complex tectonic styles near the U.S.-Mexican border. The last five chapters are on sedimentologic and stratigraphic studies related to foreland/thrust belt interaction and foreland-basin evolution. Profusely illustrated and includes three pocket-plates and a microfiche card.
Published: 4/01/1988
ISBN Number: 0-8137-1171-1
Pages: 582
Product Category: EBooks