1989
DOI: 10.1029/ft324
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Evolution of Resource-Rich Foreland and Intennontane Basins in Eastern Utah and Western Colorado: Salt Lake City, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado, July 20–24, 1989

Abstract: COVER Exposures of the sandstone-dominated lower part of the tertiary Green River formation seen in the Gate Canyon area on the afternoon of day 2. Frequently fluctuating lake levels resulted in this sequence of interbedded delta plain in marginal lacustrine deposits. The pronounced lateral acretion bedding common in this part of the Green River formation formed in both fluvial and deltaic environments.

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“…Large lakes are widely recognized for their importance as economic resources and as archives of faunal, fl oral, and climatic evolution (e.g., Bradley, 1929;Franczyk et al, 1989;Wilf, 2000) but are less well understood with regard to the geomorphic evolution of the landscapes surrounding them (cf. Surdam and Stanley, 1980;Pietras et al, 2003a;Carroll et al, 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Large lakes are widely recognized for their importance as economic resources and as archives of faunal, fl oral, and climatic evolution (e.g., Bradley, 1929;Franczyk et al, 1989;Wilf, 2000) but are less well understood with regard to the geomorphic evolution of the landscapes surrounding them (cf. Surdam and Stanley, 1980;Pietras et al, 2003a;Carroll et al, 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Farther west, on the Gunnison Plateau, there are Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene rocks that have been correlated to rocks east of this structural high. But based on depositional facies relations and paleocurrent trends, Lawton (1989;written commun., 1989) has interpreted this Gunnison Plateau sequence to have been deposited in small intermontane basins (piggyback basins) that formed on the thrust allochthon possibly as early as latest Campanian time but definitely by Maastrichtian time. The number, dimensions, and distribution of these intermontane basins that formed on the allochthon have not been completely defined; thus, they are illustrated schematically on the reconstructions.…”
Section: Evolution Of Sedimentary Basins Uinta and Piceance Basinsmentioning
confidence: 99%