Deformation consequences of impingement of Foreland and Northern Thrust Belt (Palisades-Jackson Hole area), eastern Idaho and western Wyoming
Structural studies in the Wyoming-Idaho segment of the Cordilleran thrust belt have provided insight into the nature and origin of the broad, east-facing salient west and southwest of Jackson, Wyoming. Changes in the orientation of regional fracture patterns and compression directions determined by dynamic analysis of calcite twins both indicate that the thrust sheets rotated into the salient in a counterclockwise direction. Furthermore, both field observations and calcite twin data show that there has been a large amount of subhorizontal, strike-normal deformation in the Prospect thrust sheet in the Teton Pass area, where the Prospect and Cache Creek thrusts are in direct contact. Subsurface evidence from Teton valley and the Hoback basin dates the Cache Creek thrust as older than the Prospect, Darby, and Absaroka thrusts. An accurate understanding of the timing of these structural events relative to the timing of hydrocarbon generation and migration should be an essential factor in any exploration model of the area.
- Research Organization:
- Champlin Petroleum Co., Englewood, CO
- OSTI ID:
- 5590260
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8408161-
- Journal Information:
- Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States), Vol. 68:7; Conference: Energy and More in '84, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 27 Aug 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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