Collaborative Proposal: Magnetostratigraphy, Depositional Patterns and Temporal Evolution of a Piggyback Basin, SevierOrogenic Belt, Central Utah

这项研究将结合磁性地层学、沉积学、生物地层学和构造地质学等领域来分析一个晚白垩世至早第三纪的沉积盆地，这里称为AxHandle盆地，它发育在犹他州中部的活动逆冲构造之上。该分析将确定盆地在下伏逆冲系统发生缩短期间的几何形状、沉积模式和沉积速率。因此，可以解释逆冲系统的时间和缩短历史，并将其与喜马拉雅和比利牛斯山第三纪的类似构造类似物进行比较。了解这些盆地的构造和沉积作用将有助于寻找油气资源。

This research will integrate the fields of magnetostratigraphy, sedimentology, biostratigraphy andstructural geology to analyze a latest Cretaceous to early Tertiary sedimentary basin, here termed the Axhandle Basin, that developed atop an active thrust sheet in central Utah. The analysis will define the geometry, sedimentation patterns and sedimentation rates of the basin during the time that shortening occurred on the underlying thrust system. As a result, the timing and shortening history of the thrust system may be interpreted and compared with similarly well dated tectonic analogues such as those in the Tertiary of the Himalaya and Pyrenees. Understanding the tectonics and sedimentation of such basins will aid the search for hydrocarbon resources.