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Wyoming Geological Association 34th Annual Field Conference Guidebook 1983 Geology of the Bighorn Basin Editor W. W. BOBERG Billings, Montana: September 17-21, 1983
EDITOR: W.W. Boberg 274 pages, 19 pages, 10 road logs This guidebook includes structural interpretations of the Bighorn Basin, the Tensleep Fault, the Clark's Fork Canyon area, the Beartooth Mountains, the Sheep Mountain Anticline, and Heart Mountain. Other papers discuss early exploration in the basin, South Byron field, development of bentonite reserves, uranium resources, the Copper Mountain metamorphic complex, and fluvial terrace development in the basin. TABLE OF CONTENTS
OIL AND GAS EARLY EXPLORATION FOR OIL IN THE NORTHERN BIGHORN BASIN AS REPORTED TO THE EASTERN LAND AGENT OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY - Don E. French...13 SHALLOW CRETACEOUS OIL AND GAS POTENTIAL, SOUTH BYRON AREA, BIG HORN COUNTY. WYOMING - Curtis L. Talbot...95 STRUCTURE POSSIBLE UPPER MANTLE CONVECTION CURRENT SYSTEM IN THE U.S. CORDILLERA - William H. Curry, III...29 A PROPOSED STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BIGIIORN BASIN, WYOMING-MONTANA - William H. Curry, III...43 HORIZONTAL COMPRESSION AND A MECHANICAL INTERPRETATION OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN FORELAND DEFORMATION - J.R. Scheevel...53 DEFORMATION STYLES ALONG THE TENSLEEP FAULT, BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING - M. Lee Allison...63 OVERPRINTING OF LARAMIDE STRUCTURAL GRAINS IN THE CLARK'S FORK CANYON AREA AND EASTERN BEARTOOTH MOUNTAINS OF WYOMING - Donald U. Wise...77 GRAVITY ANOMALIES ALONG THE BEARTOOTH FRONT, MONTANA - William E. Bonini and Randy E. Kinard...89 MECHANISMS FOR DEFORMATION OF SEDIMENTARY STRATA AT SHEEP MOUNTAIN ANTICLINE. BIGHORN BASIN. WYOMING - Jeff Hennier and John H. Spang...96 HEART MOUNTAIN FAULTING: TIMING AND MECHANISM - Willis H. Nelson and William G. Pierce...113 HEART MOUNTAIN-BLOCKS IN A GIANT VOLCANIC ROCK GLACIER - by John H. Sales...117 ECONOMIC MINERALS COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF BIGHORN BASIN BENTONITE RESERVES - Thomas A. Thorson...167 URANIUM AND THORIUM IN THE BIGHORN BASIN - Ray E. Harris...171 RECONNAISSANCE AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE COPPER MOUNTAIN METAMORPHIC COMPLEX, OWL CREEK MOUNTAINS, WYOMING - W. Dan Hausel and Paul J. Graff...179 GENERAL GEOLOGY PALEOCENE - EOCENE FAUNAL ZONES AND A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF LARAMIDE STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION IN THE CLARK'S FORK BASIN, WYOMING - Phillip D. Gingerich...185 TERRACE DEVELOPMENT IN THE SHOSHONE RIVER VALLEY NEAR POWELL, WYOMING AND SPECULATIONS CONCERNING THE SUB-POWELL TERRACE - Dale F. Ritter and Marvin E. Kauffman...197 SUMMARY OF EOCENE STRATIGRAPHY AT THE BASE OF JIM MOUNTAIN, NORTH FORK OF THE SHOSHONE RIVER, NORTHWESTERN WYOMING - Victor Torres and Phillip D. Gingerich...205 GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN FIVE SPRINGS AREA, BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING - Richard V. Birdseye...209 TERRACE CHRONOLOGIES IN THE BIG HORN BASIN, WYOMING - Robert Palmquist...217 ROAD LOGS...232 |
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