Structural and microstructural evolution of the Rattlesnake Mountain Anticline (Wyoming, USA): New insights into the Sevier and Laramide orogenic stress build-up in the Bighorn Basin

Tectonophysics

Volumn 576-577, Issue , 2012, Pages 20-45

  Beaudoin, Nicolas ^a,b   Leprêtre, Rémi ^a,b,c   Bellahsen, Nicolas ^a,b   Lacombe, Olivier ^a,b   Amrouch, Khalid ^a,b,c   Callot, Jean Paul ^d   Emmanuel, Laurent ^a,b   Daniel, Jean Marc ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^c IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Bighorn Basin; Fracture pattern in foreland basins; Kinematic evolution of basement cored anticline; Rattlesnake Mountain Anticline; Stress propagation in the upper crust; Thick skinned deformation

Indexed keywords

BIGHORN BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; KINEMATIC EVOLUTION; RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN ANTICLINE; UPPER CRUST;

BUILDINGS; FAULTING; FRACTURE; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANTICLINE; ARCH; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; FORELAND BASIN; FRACTURE; LARAMIDE OROGENY; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; UPLIFT; UPPER CRUST;

BIGHORN BASIN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SHEEP MOUNTAIN [WYOMING]; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84867898217     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.036     Document Type: Article

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