| Abstract: | The frontal thrust belt in the Lima area of SW Montana consists of blind (nonsurfacing) thrusts of the Lima thrust system beneath the Lima anticline and the Tendoy thrust sheet to the W. The Tendoy sheet involves Mississippian through Cretaceous rocks of the SW-plunging nose of the Mesozoic Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift that are thrust higher (NE) onto the uplift. The front of the Tendoy sheet W of Lima locally has been warped by later compressive deformation which also involved synorogenic conglomerates of the structurally underlying Beaverhead Formation. To the N, recent extension faulting locally has dropped the front of the Tendoy sheet beneath Quaternary gravels. Rocks of the exposed Tendoy sheet have never been deeply buried, based on vitrinite relectance of = or <0.6%, conodont CAI (color alteration index) values that are uniformly 1, and on supporting organic geochemical data from Paleozoic rocks from the Tendoy thrust sheet. Directly above and W of the Tendoy sheet lie formerly more deeply buried rocks of the Medicine Lodge thrust system. Their greater burial depth is indicated by higher conodont CAI values. W-dipping post-Paleocene extension faults truncate much of the rear part of the Tendoy sheet and also separate the Medicine Lodge sheet from thrust sheets of the Beaverhead Range still farther W. -from Authors |
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| Citation Author: | Perry, Jr, W. J.; Wardlaw, B. R.; Bostick, N. H.; Maughan, E. K. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Structure, burial history, and petroleum potential of frontal thrust belt and adjacent foreland, southwest Montana.; 1983; Article; Journal; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin; Perry, Jr, W. J.; Wardlaw, B. R.; Bostick, N. H.; Maughan, E. K. |
| Citation Start Page: | 725 |
| Citation Volume: | 67 |
| Citation Year: | 1983 |
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| Text: | Structure, burial history, and petroleum potential of frontal thrust belt and adjacent foreland, southwest Montana.; 1983; Article; Journal; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin; Perry, Jr, W. J.; Wardlaw, B. R.; Bostick, N. H.; Maughan, E. K. |
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| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1983 00:00 -0600 |
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