The Sheep Pass Formation,syn-convergent extension in the Sevier Orogen
Peter Druschke
Broschiertes Buch

The Sheep Pass Formation,syn-convergent extension in the Sevier Orogen

Geology of the Cretaceous to Eocene Sheep Pass Formation, Nevada, U.S.A.

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The Cretaceous to Paleogene Sevier orogen of western North America is considered an ancient high-elevation plateau, broadly analogous to the modern Andean Altiplano. The Sevier orogen has since undergone extension and topographic collapse and today is occupied by the Basin and Range Province, a region of narrow mountain belts separated by broad fault-bounded valleys. The prevailing geological models suggest that the Sevier hinterland was a low-relief, tectonically quiescent plateau during the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene. New geologic mapping of the Sheep Pass Formation type section of Nevada...