Deformation of Eocene synorogenic conglomerate in the footwall of the Clear Creek Thrust Fault, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

Mountain Geologist

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 81-90

  Hoy, Richard G ^a   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EOCENE; TECTONICS; THRUST;

USA, WYOMING, BIGHORN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0031710862     PISSN: 0027254X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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