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Tertiary Stratigraphy Of The Niobrara River Valley, Marsland Quadrangle, Western Nebraska, Conservation And Survey Division Jan 1978

Tertiary Stratigraphy Of The Niobrara River Valley, Marsland Quadrangle, Western Nebraska, Conservation And Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

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Stratigraphy Of The Lower Tertiary And Upper Cretaceous (?) Continental Strata In The Canyon Range, Juab County, Utah, James M. Stolle Jan 1978

Stratigraphy Of The Lower Tertiary And Upper Cretaceous (?) Continental Strata In The Canyon Range, Juab County, Utah, James M. Stolle

Theses and Dissertations

The Canyon Range Formation (informal new name), formerly mapped as the Indianola Group within the Canyon Range, is divisible into two distinct, mappable units, A and B. Unit A is nearly all conglomerate strata, and conglomerate texture and sedimentary structures suggest an alluvial fan depositional environment. Precambrian and basal Cambrian quartzite clasts represent the erosional debris from the allochthonous Canyon Range thrust. Unit B is composed of interbedded fluvial sandstone and conglomerates with lacustrine limestones, commonly micritic and/or oncolitic. Conglomerate clasts indicate a Paleozoic carbonate provenance. Unit A, previously mapped as the Indianola, underlies Unit B and correlates with the …


The Geology Of Southwestern Fidalgo Island, Daryl Gusey Jan 1978

The Geology Of Southwestern Fidalgo Island, Daryl Gusey

WWU Graduate School Collection

Detailed geologic mapping of rocks in the upper stratigraphic levels of the Fidalgo ophiolite Indicates that keratophyres and spilites are interbedded with tuffaceous sediments, sedimentary breccias, and graywacke. Sedimentary breccias containing plutonlc rock fragments as well as volcanic rock fragments are common. The graywackes were derived from a volcanic source area. Radiolaria In the tuffaceous sediments indicate a depositional age of Lower Kimmeridgian to Upper Valanginian.

Compared to the stratigraphy and petrology of other ophiolites and present-day tectonic environments, the Fidalgo Complex most closely resembles that of ancient and modern island-arc sequences.