Full Title: Deformation and Deposition between a Foreland Uplift and an Impinging Thrust Belt: Hoback Basin, Wyoming
Authors: John A. Dorr, Jr., Darwin R. Spearing, and James R. Steidtmann
The Hoback basin of western Wyoming is in the zone impingement between the ranges of the Idaho-Wyoming thrust belt on the west and the Gros Ventre and Wind River foreland uplifts on the east. These ranges shed synorogenic clastic debris that filled the basin during Late Cretaceous and Tertiary time. Important for those interested in tectonic mechanisms and broad explanations for crustal deformation, this paper deals primarily with the Laramide orogeny and the later history of the northern part of the Idaho-Wyoming thrust belt and with the neighboring basin.
Published: 7/05/1977
ISBN Number: 0813721776
Pages: 88
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