Sevier orogenesis and nonmarine basin filling: Implications of new stratigraphic correlations of Lower Cretaceous strata throughout Wyoming, USA

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 886-896

  Zaleha, Michael J ^a  

^a WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloverly; Gannett; Lakota; Lower Cretaceous; Sevier orogeny

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; LOWER CRETACEOUS NONMARINE ROCKS; MOUNTAIN-BELT UPLIFT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; LANDFORMS; LIMESTONE; ROCKS; SETTLING TANKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BASIN FILL; CRETACEOUS; FORELAND BASIN; OROGENY; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 33745951834     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25715.1     Document Type: Article

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