Tectonic Controls of Foreland Basin Subsidence and Laramide Style Deformation, Western United States

Cross, Timothy A.

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“…Periods of relative tectonic stability characterized by minimal subsidence or slight emergence must primarily reflect slower rates of convergence or periods of transform faulting along the western continental margin. As an example, both Engebretson and others (1985) and Cross (1986) showed marked slowing of Farallon-North America convergence rates between about 145 and 100 Ma, corresponding approximately to the period of relative tectonic stability in the early Early Cretaceous described above.…”

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“…The late Paleozoic phase (phase three) is unique in that it reflects overlapping influences of events along both the western and southeastern continental margins. If the effects of Neogene Basin and Range extension and Mesozoic shortening are subtracted (see Cross, 1986;Levy and Christie-Blick, 1989), estimates of the distance between the western boundary of the Uinta-Piceance region and the western continental margin range from about 260 to 415 km during the early Paleozoic (phase one) to more than Piceance region was about 1,150-1,500 km from the southeastern continental margin during the late Paleozoic. Phanerozoic basin evolution in the Uinta-Piceance region therefore emphasizes the extent to which continental-margin events and processes affect basin evolution in distant, adjacent cratons.…”

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“…Nonmarine facies are mainly fluvial sandstone and mudstone; marginal-marine deposits are mainly coastal-plain sandstone and lesser coal; offshore deposits are mainly shale with minor sandstone. Cross (1986) suggested that a major change in regional subsidence patterns (the initiation of Laramide tectonism, see above) occurred in the early Campanian about 84 Ma. Using similar evidence, Dickinson and others (1988) suggested that Laramide deformation began in the Maastrichtian (71-66 Ma).…”

Section: Phanerozoic Evolution Of Sedimentary Basins Colorado and Utmentioning

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“…Subsidence of the Sevier foreland basin resulted from crustal loading by thrust sheets. Subsidence of Laramide basins reflects both supracrustal loading from Laramide thrust plates and possibly subcrustal loading from the shallow subducting plate (Cross and Pilger, 1978;Bird, 1984;Cross, 1986). The Precordillera-Sierras Pampeanas region of Argentina provides a Neogene to modern analogue for both the Sevier and Laramide orogenies (Jordan and Allmendinger, 1986;Fielding and Jordan, 1988).…”

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“…The driving force for the Sevier and Laramide orogenies is widely attributed to interactions farther west along the western margin of the North American plate (for example, Dickinson and Snyder, 1978;Cross, 1986;Hamilton, 1988).…”

Section: Late Early Cretaceous To Late Eocene (Phase Six)mentioning

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Phanerozoic evolution of sedimentary basins in the Uinta-Piceance Basin region, northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah

Johnson¹

1992

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Section: Phanerozoic Evolution Of Sedimentary Basins Colorado and Utmentioning

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Section: Late Early Cretaceous To Late Eocene (Phase Six)mentioning

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Phanerozoic evolution of sedimentary basins in the Uinta-Piceance Basin region, northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah

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Late Cretaceous–early Eocene Laramide uplift, exhumation, and basin subsidence in Wyoming: Crustal responses to flat slab subduction

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Low-angle subduction of the Farallon oceanic plate during the Late Cretaceous-early Eocene is generally considered as the main driver forming the high Rocky Mountains in Wyoming and nearby areas. How the deformation was transferred from mantle to upper crust over the great duration of deformation (~40 Myr) is still debated. Here, we reconstruct basin subsidence and compile paleoelevation, thermochronology, and provenance data to assess the timing, magnitude, and rates of rock uplift during the Laramide deformation. We reconstruct rock uplift as the sum of surface uplift and erosion constrained by combining paleoelevation and exhumation with regional stratigraphic thickness and chronostratigraphic information. The amount (and rate) of rock uplift of individual Laramide ranges was less than 2.4-4.8 km (~0.21-0.32 mm/yr) during the early Maastrichtian-Paleocene (stage 1) and increased to more than~3 km (~0.38-0.60 mm/yr) during the late Paleocene-early Eocene (stage 2). Our quantitative constraints reveal a two-stage development of the Laramide deformation in Wyoming and an increase of rock uplift during stage 2, associated with enhanced intermontane basin subsidence. Exhumation and uplift during stage 1 is consistent with eastward migration of Cordilleran deformation associated with low-angle subduction, whereas the change in exhumation during stage 2 seems to follow a southwestward trend, which requires an alternative explanation. We here suggest that the increase of rock uplift rate during the late Paleocene-early Eocene and the southwestward younging trend of uplift may be a response to the rollback and associated retreating delamination of the Farallon oceanic slab.

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Anatomy of Anticlines, Piggy‐Back Basins and Growth Strata: A Case Study from the Limón Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt, Costa Rica

Brandes

Astorga

Blisniuk

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Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins

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The Limón back-arc basin, located along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, is part of the Central American island-arc system. Basin evolution started in Late Cretaceous time as a response to subduction of the Farallón Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate. Today, the Limón Basin can be subdivided into northern and southern sub-basins, separated by the Trans Isthmic Fault System. Cenozoic deposits in the northern basin are nearly undeformed. The southern sub-basin, in contrast, was the site of northeast-directed folding and thrusting during the late Cainozoic. The presence of Plio-Pleistocene growth strata in seismic reflection lines from the offshore part of the South Limón Basin supports the results of previous work relating this compressive deformation to the Pliocene collision and subsequent low-angle subduction of the aseismic Cocos Ridge at the Central American subduction zone. Internally, the fold-and-thrust belt is characterized by concentric hangingwall anticlines and large southwestward-dipping thrusts. All thrusts sole into a common horizontal detachment, the position of which is probably controlled by a lithological change from shale to limestone near the base of the Middle Miocene. The geometry of growth strata in associated footwall synclines and piggy-back basins indicates that the anticlines evolved in a very steady fashion. The sediment thickness distribution in the piggy-back basins and footwall synclines varies systematically with the displacement along the thrust faults they are associated with. The greater the displacement the greater the accommodation space in the footwall syncline and the lesser the accommodation space in the piggy-back basin. Locally, thin packages of post-growth strata can be observed. In the northwestern portion of this fold-and-thrust belt, structural trends bend abruptly into a southwest-northeast orientation, thought to result from the presence of a large basement high that acted as an obstacle to the northeastward propagation of folds and thrusts.

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Tectonic Controls of Foreland Basin Subsidence and Laramide Style Deformation, Western United States

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Phanerozoic evolution of sedimentary basins in the Uinta-Piceance Basin region, northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah

Phanerozoic evolution of sedimentary basins in the Uinta-Piceance Basin region, northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah

Late Cretaceous–early Eocene Laramide uplift, exhumation, and basin subsidence in Wyoming: Crustal responses to flat slab subduction

Anatomy of Anticlines, Piggy‐Back Basins and Growth Strata: A Case Study from the Limón Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt, Costa Rica

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