Regional tectonics and fracture patterns in the Fall River Formation (Lower Cretaceous) around the Black Hills foreland uplift, western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 169, Issue , 2000, Pages 145-165

  Wicks, John L ^a   Dean, Stuart L ^b   Kulander, Byron R ^c  

^a Dalton and Hanna   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FOLDING; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034091145     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.169.01.11     Document Type: Article

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