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Ichnology, Sedimentology, And Regional Sandstone Body Correlations Of The Peay Member (Frontier Formation), Northeast Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A., Trevor J. Hurd Apr 2012

Ichnology, Sedimentology, And Regional Sandstone Body Correlations Of The Peay Member (Frontier Formation), Northeast Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A., Trevor J. Hurd

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A detailed outcrop and sub-surface analysis was completed on the Peay Member sandstone (Frontier Formation) in the northeast Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, building on previous work by Clark (2010) and Hutsky (2011). Regional correlations reveal the sandstone body to be digitate in planform geometry, elongate along depositional dip, and restricted across depositional strike. It is interpreted to be the product of south-southeastward progradation from a fluvially-dominated delta lobe into the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (KWIS) Basin. This shore-parallel progradation direction suggests a southward-deflected delta lobe, facilitated by a counter-clockwise gyre circulation in the KWIS. Outcrop investigations concentrated on evaluating lateral variations …


Three Geologic Cross Sections Across Portions Of Eastern Nebraska Showing Quaternary Lithologic Units And Stratigraphy Of Uppermost Bedrock, Jesse T. Korus, Dana Divine, P. R. Hanson, J. S. Dillon Jan 2012

Three Geologic Cross Sections Across Portions Of Eastern Nebraska Showing Quaternary Lithologic Units And Stratigraphy Of Uppermost Bedrock, Jesse T. Korus, Dana Divine, P. R. Hanson, J. S. Dillon

Conservation and Survey Division

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