Concurrent growth of uplifts with dissimilar orientations in the southern green river Basin, wyoming: Implications for paleocene- eocene patterns of foreland shortening

Rocky Mountain Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-16

  Johnson, Philip L ^a   Andersen, David W ^b  

^a Shires and Associates ^*  (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basement uplifts; Flexural subsidence; Foreland; Laramide; Oblique slip; Shortening

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOCENE; RIVER BASIN; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

GREEN BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 67449146582     PISSN: 15557332     EISSN: 15557340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsrocky.44.1.1     Document Type: Article

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