Collaborative Research: Magnetostratigraphy, Depositional Patterns and Temporal Evolution of Piggyback Basin, Sevier Orogenic Belt, Central Utah

这项研究将整合磁地层学、沉积学、生物地层学和构造地质学等领域，分析一个白垩纪晚期到第三纪早期的沉积盆地，这里被称为Axhandle盆地，该盆地位于犹他州中部的一个活动逆冲板上。该分析将确定下伏逆冲系统在缩短期间盆地的几何形状、沉积模式和沉积速率。因此，冲断系统的时间和缩短历史可以被解释，并与类似的构造分析物进行比较，如喜马拉雅和比利牛斯的第三纪。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 and structural 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 analyogues 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.