Maximum depositional age and provenance of the Uinta Mountain Group and Big Cottonwood Formation, northern Utah: Paleogeography of rifting western Laurentia

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2010

Authors

Dehler, Carol M.
Fanning, Christopher
Link, Paul K.
Kingsbury, Esther M.
Rybczynski, Dan

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Association of Engineering Geologists

Abstract

U-Pb detrital zircon analyses provide a new maximum depositional age constraint on the Uinta Mountain Group (UMG) and correlative Big Cottonwood Formation (BCF) of Utah, and significantly enhance our insights on the mid-Neoproterozoic paleogeographic and

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Keywords: Age constraints; Age distribution; Alternative source; Antarctica; Archean; Arizona; Australia; Data support; Detrital zircon; Detrital zircon grains; Grand Canyons; Marine currents; Neoproterozoic; North American; Pacific ocean; Paleogeography; Paleoprot

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Geological Society of America Bulletin

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2037-12-31