Proterozoic evolution of the western margin of the Wyoming craton: Implications for the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the northern Rocky Mountains

DA Foster, PA Mueller, DW Mogk… - … Journal of Earth …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Defining the extent and age of basement provinces west of the exposed western margin of
the Archean Wyoming craton has been elusive because of thick sedimentary cover and …

Early inception of the Laramide orogeny in southwestern Montana and northern Wyoming: Implications for models of flat‐slab subduction

B Carrapa, PG DeCelles… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Timing and distribution of magmatism, deformation, exhumation, and basin development
have been used to reconstruct the history of Laramide flat‐slab subduction under North …

The Wyoming Province: a distinctive Archean craton in Laurentian North America

PA Mueller, CD Frost - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
The Wyoming Province is a distinctive Archean craton in the northwestern United States that
can be subdivided into three subprovinces, namely, from oldest to youngest, the Montana …

A 3-billion-year history of magmatism, metamorphism, and metasomatism recorded by granulite-facies xenoliths from central Montana, USA

MF Ringwood, SE Ortner, GGE Seward… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2025 - Springer
Lower crustal xenoliths from the Missouri Breaks diatremes and Bearpaw Mountains
volcanic field in Montana record a multi-billion-year geologic history lasting from the …

Advances in the geology of the Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana, and their implications for the history of the northern Wyoming province

TA Harms, JB Brady, HR Burger… - Geological Society of …, 2004 - scholarworks.smith.edu
Abstract Integrated studies by Keck Geology Consortium participants have generated many
new insights into the Precambrian geology of the Tobacco Root Mountains. We have …

Wyoming on the run—Toward final Paleoproterozoic assembly of Laurentia

TM Kilian, KR Chamberlain, DAD Evans… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Paleoproterozoic suture zones mark the formation of supercontinent Nuna and provide a
record of North America's assembly. Conspicuously young ages (ca. 1.715 Ga) associated …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

[PDF][PDF] Age and evolution of the Precambrian crust of the Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana

PA Mueller, HR Burger, JL Wooden… - … -Geological Society of …, 2004 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT U-Pb analyses of zircons from gneisses, anatectic leucosome, metasedimentary
rocks, and a younger (metamorphosed) mafic dike from the Tobacco Root Mountains of …

U-Pb ages of zircons from the Lower Belt Supergroup and proximal crystalline basement: Implications for the early evolution of the Belt Basin

P Mueller, D Mogk, J Wooden, D Spake - 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Neihart Quartzite and LaHood Formation are the lowermost units exposed
in the Helena embayment, which forms the eastern and southeastern margins of the Belt …

Foreland-directed propagation of high-grade tectonism in the deep roots of a Paleoproterozoic collisional orogen, SW Montana, USA

CB Condit, KH Mahan, AK Ault… - Lithosphere, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The study of deeply exhumed ancient collisional belts offers important constraints on
geologic processes and properties complementary to inaccessible portions of the crustal …