Sedimentation and deformation in the Southern Sevier Foreland, Red Hills, Southwestern Utah

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Title Sedimentation and deformation in the Southern Sevier Foreland, Red Hills, Southwestern Utah
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Mines & Earth Sciences
Department Geology & Geophysics
Author Anderson, Leona Page
Date 2010
Description The Red Hills is the easternmost range within the Basin-and-Range province at the latitude of Parowan in southwestern Utah. It exposes two important late Mesozoic geologic margins: the westernmost deposits of the Cretaceous Interior Seaway and the easternmost thrusts of the Sevier orogenic belt. Jurassic to Eocene sedimentary strata, overlain by Tertiary pyroclastic deposits, record Sevier contractional deformation and foreland sedimentation overprinted by Miocene to present Basin-and-Range extensional deformation. Three east-vergent Sevier thrusts exposed in the Red Hills juxtapose, from west to east, the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone over isoclinally folded Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation, the Carmel Formation over overturned Late Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation, and the Straight Cliffs section over the subhorizontal Late Cretaceous Iron Springs Formation. These thrust faults will respectively be referred to as the western, central, and Iron Springs thrusts.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Colorado plateau stratigraphy; Southwestern Utah; Geology of the Parowan Gap; Geology of the Red Hills; Mesozoic geologic boundaries; Sedimentation and deformation; Sevier thrust belt
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Rights Management ©Leona Page Anderson
Format application/pdf
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Source Original in Marriott Library Special Collections, QE3.5 2010 .A63
ARK ark:/87278/s6n87rfr
Setname ir_etd
ID 193711
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6n87rfr
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