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Book The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada

Download or read book The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada written by Andrew Miall and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-04-20 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada, Second Edition, focuses on the large, regional, sedimentary accumulations in Canada and the United States. Each chapter provides a succinct summary of the tectonic setting and structural and paleogeographic evolution of the basin it covers, with details on structure and stratigraphy. The book features four new chapters that cover the sedimentary basins of Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. In addition to sedimentary geologists, this updated reference is relevant for basin analysis, regional geology, stratigraphy, and for those working in the hydrocarbon exploration industry. Features updates to existing chapters, along with new chapters on sedimentary basins in Alaska and Arctic Canada Includes nearly 300 detailed, full-color paleogeographic maps Written for general geological audiences and individuals working in the resources sector, particularly those in the fossil fuel industry

Book Timing and Tectonic Significance of Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Nonmarine Sediments  Bighorn Basin  Wyoming and Montana

Download or read book Timing and Tectonic Significance of Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Nonmarine Sediments Bighorn Basin Wyoming and Montana written by Nancy S. Winslow and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Upper Jurassic Lower Cretaceous Morrison and Cedar Mountain Formations  NE Utah NW Colordao  Colorado   Relationships Between Nonmarine Deposition and Early Cordilleran Foreland Basin Development

Download or read book Upper Jurassic Lower Cretaceous Morrison and Cedar Mountain Formations NE Utah NW Colordao Colorado Relationships Between Nonmarine Deposition and Early Cordilleran Foreland Basin Development written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation

Download or read book Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation written by John R. Foster and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Correlations of the Upper Jurassic lower Cretaceous Nonmarine and Transitional Rocks in the Northern Rocky Mountain Foreland

Download or read book Correlations of the Upper Jurassic lower Cretaceous Nonmarine and Transitional Rocks in the Northern Rocky Mountain Foreland written by Nathan Way and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sedimentary Petrology and Regional Stratigraphy of the Non marine Upper Jurassic Lower Cretaceous Rocks of Western Wyoming and Southeastern Idaho

Download or read book Sedimentary Petrology and Regional Stratigraphy of the Non marine Upper Jurassic Lower Cretaceous Rocks of Western Wyoming and Southeastern Idaho written by Lloyd Carroll Furer and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stratigraphic Evolution of Foreland Basins

Download or read book Stratigraphic Evolution of Foreland Basins written by Steven L. Dorobek and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong case can be made that foreland basins are where the casual links between sedimentation and tectonic events were first recognized, as evidenced by the interpretations of geologists working in classic foreland areas. This Special Publication was derived from a Research Symposium entitled "Stratigraphic Sequences in Foreland Basins" held at the AAPG-SEPM joint annual meeting on June, 1992, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This volume provides a well-balanced perspective of current research on foreland basin stratigraphy and also serves as another element in the evolving framework that comprises our understanding of foreland basins. Given that so many of earth's resources are found in foreland basins and that foreland basin strata often provide the only preserved record of the tectonic events that led to basin development, the impetus for continued studies of foreland basin strata should remain for many generations of geologists to come.

Book Perspectives on the Eastern Margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin

Download or read book Perspectives on the Eastern Margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin written by George W. Shurr and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers on cretaceous rocks in the northern Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains region, the Gulf Coastal Plain of eastern Alabama, and southwestern Minnesota; the Dakota formation; evolutionary and paleological implications of fossil plants from the lower cretaceous Cheyenne sandstone; and fau

Book Tectonics  Sedimentary Basins  and Provenance  A Celebration of the Career of William R  Dickinson

Download or read book Tectonics Sedimentary Basins and Provenance A Celebration of the Career of William R Dickinson written by Raymond V. Ingersoll and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a remarkable combination of intellect, self-confidence, engaging humility, and prodigious output of published work, William R. Dickinson influenced and challenged three generations of sedimentary geologists, igneous petrologists, tectonicists, sandstone petrologists, archaeologists, and other geoscientists. A key figure in the plate-tectonic revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, he explained how the distribution of sediments on Earth's surface could be traced to tectonic processes, and is widely recognized as a founder of modern sedimentary basin analysis. This volume consists of 31 chapters related to Dickinson's research interests; many of the authors are his former students, their students, and their students' students, demonstrating his continuing profound influence. The papers in this volume are an impressive tribute to the depth and breadth of Bill Dickinson's contributions to the geosciences.

Book Late Jurassic to Eocene Evolution of the Cordilleran Thrust Belt and Foreland Basin System  Western U S A

Download or read book Late Jurassic to Eocene Evolution of the Cordilleran Thrust Belt and Foreland Basin System Western U S A written by Peter G. DeCelles and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geochronological, structural, and sedimentological data provide the basis for a regional synthesis of the evolution of the Cordilleran retroarc thrust belt and foreland basin system in the western U.S.A. In this region, the Cordilleran orogenic belt became tectonically consolidated during Late Jurassic time (~155 Ma) with the closure of marginal oceanic basins and accretion of fringing arcs along the western edge of the North American plate. Over the ensuing 100 Myr, contractile deformation propagated approximately 1000 kilometers eastward, culminating in the formation of the Laramide Rocky Mountain ranges. At the peak of its development, the retroarc side of the Cordillera was divided into five tectonomorphic zones, including from west to east the Luning-Fencemaker thrust belt; the central Nevada (or Eureka) thrust belt; a high-elevation plateau (the 'Nevadaplano'); the topographically rugged Sevier fold-thrust belt; and the Laramide zone of intraforeland basement uplifts and basins. Mid-crustal rocks beneath the Nevadaplano experienced high-grade metamorphism and shortening during Late Jurassic and mid- to Late Cretaceous time, and the locus of major, upper crustal thrust faulting migrated sporadically eastward. By Late Cretaceous time, the middle crust beneath the Nevadaplano was experiencing decompression and cooling, perhaps in response to large-magnitude ductile extension and isostatic exhumation, concurrent with ongoing thrusting in the frontal Sevier belt. The tectonic history of the Sevier belt was remarkably consistent along strike of the orogenic belt, with emplacement of regional-scale Proterozoic and Paleozoic megathrust sheets during Early Cretaceous time and multiple, more closely spaced, Paleozoic and Mesozoic thrust sheets during Late Cretaceous-Paleocene time. Coeval with emplacement of the frontal thrust sheets, large structural culminations in Archean-Proterozoic crystalline basement developed along the basement step formed by Neoproterozoic rifting. A complex foreland basin system evolved in concert with the orogenic wedge. During its early and late history (~155 - 110 Ma and ~70 - 55 Ma) the basin was dominated by nonmarine deposition, whereas marine waters inundated the basin during its midlife (~110 - 70 Ma). Late Jurassic basin development was controlled by both flexural and dynamic subsidence. From Early Cretaceous through early Late Cretaceous time the basin was dominated by flexural subsidence. From Late Cretaceous to mid-Cenozoic time the basin was increasingly partitioned by basement-involved Laramide structures. Linkages between Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous Cordilleran arc-magmatism and westward underthrusting of North American continental lithosphere beneath the arc are not plainly demonstrable from the geological record in the Cordilleran thrust belt. A significant lag-time (~20 Myr) between shortening and coeval underthrusting, on the one hand, and generation of arc melts, on the other, is required for any linkage to exist. However, inferred Late Jurassic lithospheric delamination may have provided a necessary precondition to allow relatively rapid Early Cretaceous continental underthrusting, which in turn could have catalyzed the Late Cretaceous arc flare-up.

Book Fluvial Facies and Architecture of the Poison Strip Sandstone Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation  Grand County  Utah

Download or read book Fluvial Facies and Architecture of the Poison Strip Sandstone Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation Grand County Utah written by Mathew W. Stikes and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 2007 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study characterizes and interprets the fluvial systems responsible for deposition of the Poison Strip sandstone through analysis of extensive field data and comparison to ancient fluvial systems. Conclusions on fluvial style are related to depositional controls and to regional Lower Cretaceous rocks.

Book Sedimentology  Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironment of the Upper Jurassic Lower Cretaceous Non marine Strzelecki Group  Gippsland Basin  Southeastern Australia

Download or read book Sedimentology Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironment of the Upper Jurassic Lower Cretaceous Non marine Strzelecki Group Gippsland Basin Southeastern Australia written by Andrew Constantine and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interaction of the Rocky Mountain Foreland and the Cordilleran Thrust Belt

Download or read book Interaction of the Rocky Mountain Foreland and the Cordilleran Thrust Belt written by Christopher J. Schmidt and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1988 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume emphasizes the interaction of the Cordilleran thrust belt and Rocky Mountain foreland in studies of regional structural geology, geophysics, and sedimentology from west-central Montana to Arizona. The volume outlines how the nature of the Rocky mountain foreland and its deformation affect the geometry of the Cordilleran thrust belt. Many of the structural and geophysical studies reported in this volume also address the question of which structures - forland or thrust belt - developed first in a specific region and how early formed structures influenced later ones. Several chapters address the nature and style of foreland development.