Late paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the ancestral Front Range: Structural, stratigraphic, and sedimentologic evidence from the Fountain Formation (Manitou Springs, Colorado)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 575-594

  Sweet, Dustin E ^a   Soreghan, Gerilyn S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; COMPRESSIONAL; DRIVING FORCES; HORIZONTAL STRESS; LATE PALEOZOIC; LAURENTIAN; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; LOWER PALEOZOIC; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPLE FAULTS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERMIAN; PROGRADATION; RANGE BLOCK; RIVER SYSTEMS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SLIP MOTIONS; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL DATA;

KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; PARKS; ROTATION; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRESSES; TECTONICS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FOUNTAINS;

DIP-SLIP FAULT; FAULTING; FOLDING; KINEMATICS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; MANITOU SPRINGS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

UTE;

EID: 77951003305     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26554.1     Document Type: Article

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