[HTML][HTML] Broken foreland basins and the influence of subduction dynamics, tectonic inheritance, and mechanical triggers

BK Horton, TN Capaldi, C Mackaman-Lofland… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

Basic structural geology of Venus: A review of the gaps and how to bridge them

S Hanmer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The next decade will see new geological map** of the surface of Venus spurred by
multiple new science missions. Planetary scientists must be cognisant of gaps in our …

Magmatic surge requires two-stage model for the Laramide orogeny

JJ Schwartz, JS Lackey, EA Miranda, KA Klepeis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Laramide orogeny is a pivotal time in the geological development of western North
America, but its driving mechanism is controversial. Most prominent models suggest this …

A kinematic model linking the Sevier and Laramide belts in the Idaho-Montana fold-thrust belt, US Cordillera

SD Parker, DM Pearson - Geosphere, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Sevier and Laramide belts of the US Cordillera are differentiated based on thin-
and thick-skinned structural domains, commonly inferred to have formed under different …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

Orogens of big sky country: reconstructing the deep‐time tectonothermal history of the beartooth mountains, Montana and Wyoming, USA

CB Ronemus, DA Orme, WR Guenthner, SE Cox… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Archean rocks exposed in the Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming, have
experienced a complex> 2.5 Gyr thermal history related to the long‐term geodynamic …

Late Cretaceous time-transgressive onset of Laramide arch exhumation and basin subsidence across northern Arizona–New Mexico, USA, and the role of a …

JO Thacker, KE Karlstrom, SA Kelley… - GSA …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Spatiotemporal constraints for Late Cretaceous tectonism across the Colorado
Plateau and southern Rocky Mountains (northern Arizona–New Mexico, USA) are …

Petrogenesis of Montana, USA Sapphires Inferred from Oxygen Isotopes and Zircon Inclusions

RB Turnier, RB Berg, K Kitajima, AC Palke… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Montana hosts the largest sapphire deposits in the US, but the genesis of and connection
among the various secondary and primary sapphire occurrences remains cryptic. In situ …

Faulty foundations: Early breakup of the southern Utah Cordilleran foreland basin

GA Enriquez St. Pierre, CL Johnson - Bulletin, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Anomalous features of Upper Cretaceous strata in southern Utah challenge existing
tectonic and depositional models of the Cordilleran foreland basin. Extreme thickness …

Late Cretaceous exhumation of the Little Belt Mountains and regional development of the Helena salient, west-central Montana, USA

CJ Howlett, G Jepson, B Carrapa, PG DeCelles… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The timing of deformation within and adjacent to the Helena salient of west-central Montana
is poorly constrained relative to other segments of the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt. This study …