| Abstract: | Two major Laramide fault systems converge in the northwestern Madison Range: the northwest-striking, southwest-vergent Spanish Peaks reverse fault and the north-striking, east-vergent Hilgard thrust system. Analysis of foliation attitudes in basement gneiss north and south of the Spanish Peaks fault indicates that the basement in thrusted blocks of the Hilgard thrust system have been rotated by an amount similar to that of the basement-cover contact. Steeply dipping, north-striking breccia zones enclosing domains of relatively undeformed basement may have permitted domino-style rotation of basement blocks during simple shear between pairs of thrusts. No hydrocarbon discoveries have been made in this unique structural province. However, petroleum exploration here has focused on basement-cored anticlines, both surface and subthrust, related to the two major Laramide fault systems and on the fault-bounded blocks of Tertiary rocks within the post-Laramide extensional basins. -from Authors |
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| Citation Author: | Kellogg, K. S.; Schmidt, C. J.; Young, S. W. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Basement and cover-rock deformation during Laramide contraction in the northern Madison Range (Montana) and its influence on Cenozoic basin formation; 1995; Article; Journal; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin; Kellogg, K. S.; Schmidt, C. J.; Young, S. W. |
| Citation Start Page: | 1117 |
| Citation Volume: | 79 |
| Citation Year: | 1995 |
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| Text: | Basement and cover-rock deformation during Laramide contraction in the northern Madison Range (Montana) and its influence on Cenozoic basin formation; 1995; Article; Journal; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin; Kellogg, K. S.; Schmidt, C. J.; Young, S. W. |
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| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:00 -0600 |
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