Reconstructing the kinematic evolution of curved mountain belts: Internal strain patterns in the Wyoming salient, Sevier thrust belt, U.S.A.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 24-49

  Yonkee, Adolph ^a   Weil, Arlo Brandon ^b  

^a WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; CURVED FOLD; FAULT SLIP; INTERNAL STRAINS; JURASSIC; KINEMATIC EVOLUTION; KINEMATIC MODEL; MASS BALANCE; MESOSCOPICS; MOUNTAIN BELTS; RED BED; REGIONAL PATTERN; STRAIN PATTERNS; STRUCTURAL TRENDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL KINEMATICS; THRUST BELTS; THRUST SYSTEMS; THRUST WEDGES; TRIASSIC; WYOMING;

LIMESTONE; TECTONICS;

KINEMATICS;

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; KINEMATICS; OROGENIC BELT; RED BED; STRAIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

CRINOIDEA;

EID: 77950211884     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26484.1     Document Type: Article

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