Tectonic control on coarse-grained foreland-basin sequences: An example from the Cordilleran foreland basin, Utah

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 637-640

  Horton, Brian K ^a   Constenius, Kurt N ^b   DeCelles, Peter G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Book Cliffs; Fold and thrust belts; Foreland basins; Progradation; Sequence stratigraphy; Utah

Indexed keywords

FORELAND-BASIN SYSTEMS; PROGADATIONAL EVENT;

BOREHOLES; CATCHMENTS; SAND; SEISMOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CRETACEOUS; FOLD BELT; FORELAND BASIN; PALEOCENE; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 3543116169     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20407.1     Document Type: Article

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