Tectonic control on coarse-grained foreland-basin sequences: An example from the Cordilleran foreland basin, Utah

Brian K. Horton; Kurt N. Constenius; Peter G. DeCelles

doi:10.1130/G20407.1

Tectonic control on coarse-grained foreland-basin sequences: An example from the Cordilleran foreland basin, Utah

Brian K. Horton, Kurt N. Constenius, Peter G. DeCelles

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Abstract

Newly released reflection seismic and borehole data, combined with sedimentological, provenance, and biostratigraphic data from Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene strata in the proximal part of the Cordilleran foreland-basin system in Utah, establish the nature of tectonic controls on stratigraphic sequences in the proximal to distal foreland basin. During Campanian time, coarse-grained sand and gravel were derived from the internally shortening Charleston-Nebo salient of the Sevier thrust belt. A rapid, regional Campanian progradational event in the distal foreland basin (>200 km from the thrust belt in <8 m.y.) can be tied directly to active thrust-generated growth structures and an influx of quartzose detritus derived from the Charleston-Nebo salient. Eustatic sea-level variation exerted a minimal role in sequence progradation.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	637-640
Number of pages	4
Journal	Geology
Volume	32
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1130/G20407.1
State	Published - Jul 1 2004

Keywords

Book Cliffs
Fold and thrust belts
Foreland basins
Progradation
Sequence stratigraphy
Utah

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Geology

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Horton, B. K., Constenius, K. N., & DeCelles, P. G. (2004). Tectonic control on coarse-grained foreland-basin sequences: An example from the Cordilleran foreland basin, Utah. Geology, 32(7), 637-640. https://doi.org/10.1130/G20407.1

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