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High-elevation fire regimes in subalpine ribbon forests during the Little Ice Age and Medieval Period along the Continental Divide, Colorado, U.S.A. 小冰河期和中世纪沿大陆分水岭的亚高山带状森林的高海拔火灾制度,美国科罗拉多州
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2014-03-20 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.75
W. J. Calder, C. Stopka, B. Shuman
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引用次数: 5
Climatic controls of hydrologic extremes in south-central Rocky Mountains of Colorado, U.S.A. 美国科罗拉多州落基山脉中南部极端水文的气候控制
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2014-03-01 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.51
J. Shinker
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引用次数: 6
A north–south moisture dipole at multi-century scales in the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., during the late Holocene 全新世晚期美国落基山脉中部和南部多世纪尺度的南北水汽偶极子
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2014-03-01 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.33
B. Shuman, G. Carter, Devin D. Hougardy, K. Powers, J. Shinker
{"title":"A north–south moisture dipole at multi-century scales in the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., during the late Holocene","authors":"B. Shuman, G. Carter, Devin D. Hougardy, K. Powers, J. Shinker","doi":"10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"Lake-level changes since ca. 3.6 kilo-annum (ka) at Emerald Lake in the Upper Arkansas River Basin of west-central Colorado coincide in time with changes of the opposite direction at Lake of the Woods in northwestern Wyoming. The contrast provides evidence of a multi-centennial moisture dipole across the Southern and Central Rocky Mountains' region similar to one associated with the effects of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on annual to decadal time scales today. Cores and ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles from Emerald Lake show that deep-water muds accumulated as extensively across the lake basin as today at ca. 3.6–3.0 and 1.4–0.8 ka, and nearly as extensively at 2.5–1.9 ka. The extensive muds indicate episodes of high water at Emerald Lake and date to times when Lake of the Woods was low. Nearshore sand layers at Emerald Lake indicate that water levels fell during the intervening centuries, including when bristlecone pine chronologies have documented repeated multi-decadal droughts in the Upper Arkansas River Basin. Water levels were also low, based on the absence of nearshore mud accumulation, before ca. 3.6 ka, and dramatically lower (>2 m in the currently 4.5-m deep lake) before a sharp rise in water levels by ca. 5.7 ka. A basin-wide change in sediment accumulation patterns, consistent with an expansion and deepening of the lake at ca. 5.7 ka, correlates with regional cooling and similar evidence of increased effective moisture at Lake of the Woods and other sites throughout central North America. The step increase in moisture availability may relate to a global-scale reorganization of climatic patterns, which developed as the mid- and high-latitudes cooled in response to a decline in summer insolation.","PeriodicalId":34958,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Geology","volume":"49 1","pages":"33-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.33","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 24
The late Pleistocene (17 ka) Soldier Bar landslide and Big Creek Lake, Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, central Idaho, U.S.A. 美国爱达荷州中部晚更新世(17ka)士兵坝滑坡与大溪湖,弗兰克丘奇-不归荒野河
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2014-03-01 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.17
P. Link, B. Crosby, Z. Lifton, Elijah A. Eversole, T. Rittenour
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引用次数: 5
Postglacial vegetation history of southeastern Wyoming, U.S.A. 美国怀俄明州东南部冰川后植被史
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2014-03-01 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.61
T. Minckley
{"title":"Postglacial vegetation history of southeastern Wyoming, U.S.A.","authors":"T. Minckley","doi":"10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"Paleoenvironmental records from southeastern Wyoming have been compiled to show the development of forests in the Medicine Bow Mountains. The late-glacial period had little to no tree cover and a landscape dominated by alpine tundra, or alpine steppe-like conditions based on high abundances of Artemisia pollen. Initial conifer forest development began after 13,000 calibrated years Before Present (cal yr BP) with patchy, mixed fir-spruce-pine forests forming throughout the Medicine Bow Mountains. At lower tree line, pines in these forests contained limber pine based on pollen and macrofossil data, whereas at mid- and high elevations pine trees were most likely lodgepole pine. Forest densities increased after 9000 cal yr BP, with upper elevations dominated by Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir, while lower elevations were dominated by lodgepole pine that replaced limber pine. Modern forest conditions began to form after 5000 cal yr BP. The timing of past vegetation change in southeastern Wyoming appears consistent with those observed in the Greater Yellowstone region though pollen assemblages vary regionally.","PeriodicalId":34958,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Geology","volume":"49 1","pages":"61-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.61","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Introduction: Studies in the Quaternary of the Rocky Mountains 导论:落基山脉第四纪研究
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2014-03-01 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.I
B. Shuman
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引用次数: 0
Aqueous geochemistry of the Thermopolis hydrothermal system, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A. 美国怀俄明州大角盆地南部Thermopolis热液系统的水地球化学特征
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2014-03-01 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.1
J. Kaszuba, K. Sims, Allison R. Pluda
{"title":"Aqueous geochemistry of the Thermopolis hydrothermal system, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.","authors":"J. Kaszuba, K. Sims, Allison R. Pluda","doi":"10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The Thermopolis hydrothermal system is located in the southern portion of the Bighorn Basin, in and around the town of Thermopolis, in northwest Wyoming. It is the largest hydrothermal system in Wyoming outside of Yellowstone National Park. The system includes hot springs, travertine deposits, and thermal wells. Published models for the hydrothermal system propose the Owl Creek Mountains as the recharge zone, simple conductive heating at depth, and resurfacing of thermal waters up the Thermopolis Anticline. The geochemistry of the thermal waters of three active hot springs—Big Spring, White Sulphur Spring, and Teepee Fountain—is similar in composition and characteristic of carbonate or carbonate-bearing siliciclastic aquifers. Previous studies of the Thermopolis hydrothermal system postulate that the thermal waters are a mixture of waters from Paleozoic formations. Major element geochemical analyses available for waters from these formations are not of sufficient quality to determine whether the thermal waters are a mixture of the Paleozoic aquifers. In the time frame of this study (one year), the geochemistry of all three springs was constant through all four seasons, spanning spring snowmelt and recharge as well as late-summer and fall dryness. This relationship is consistent with a deep source not influenced by shallow, local hydrogeology. Anomalies are evident in the historic data set for the geochemistry of Big Spring. We speculate that anomalies occurring between 1906 and 1926 suggest mixing of source waters of Big Spring with waters from a siliciclastic formation, and that anomalies occurring between 1926 and 1933 suggest mixing with waters from a formation containing gypsum or anhydrite. Decreased concentrations measured in our study—relative to concentrations measured between 1933 and 1976—may reflect mixing of thermal waters with more dilute waters. Current data are not sufficient to rigorously test these suggestions, and events of sufficient scale taking place in these timeframes have not been identified.","PeriodicalId":34958,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Geology","volume":"49 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2113/GSROCKY.49.1.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68312588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Paleoproterozoic transpressional shear zone, eastern Black Hills, South Dakota: Implications for the late tectonic history of the southern Trans-Hudson Orogen 南达科塔州布莱克山东部古元古代转扭剪切带:对南跨哈德逊造山带晚期构造史的启示
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2013-09-21 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.73
S. Allard, Douglas H. Portis
{"title":"Paleoproterozoic transpressional shear zone, eastern Black Hills, South Dakota: Implications for the late tectonic history of the southern Trans-Hudson Orogen","authors":"S. Allard, Douglas H. Portis","doi":"10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.73","url":null,"abstract":"Paleoproterozoic rocks in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota record deformation associated with accretion of Proterozoic terranes from the south and suturing of the Wyoming and Superior cratons (ca. 1780–1715 Ma). Folding associated with suturing of these Precambrian terranes is well documented. However, penetrative fabrics related to shearing are characterized in only a few localities. The research presented herein identifies and characterizes a ≥4-km-wide, pervasive, thick-skinned shear zone, which deforms the regional-scale folding in the Black Hills portion of the Wyoming craton. Shearing is bracketed between ca. 1740 Ma (post regional-F2 folding) and ca. 1715 Ma (intrusion of the Harney Peak Granite). This high-strain zone is characterized by narrow anastomosing shear zones (m-scale) in the Paleoproterozoic rocks in the east-central Black Hills near Rockerville, South Dakota. The shear zones converge to form a km-wide zone of deformation in Paleoproterozoic and Archean rocks to the north near Nemo, South Dakota. Kinematic indicators such as composite foliations, microfolding, and asymmetric mantled porphyroclasts from within the shear zone support left-lateral, east-side-up transpression. Furthermore, strain associated with the shearing is coupled to vertically plunging, isoclinal F3 folds, commonly identified only as hinge areas preserved between strongly sheared limbs, within and adjacent to the shear zone in the study area. Correlation of this deformational event from the Paleoproterozoic rocks in the east-central Black Hills to older Paleoproterozoic and Archean rocks to the north has implications for these structures to have formed during a basement-involved deformational event. Evidence that stresses associated with this ∼1740–1715 Ma event were transferred inboard to the Wyoming Province is present to the southwest in the Hartville Uplift and Laramie Mountains of southeastern Wyoming. In both locations, structures with similar timing and kinematics overprint Cheyenne-Belt deformation. The regional extent and thick-skinned nature of these structures are interpreted to signify the change to continent-continent collisional tectonics during the final suturing of the Wyoming and Superior Provinces.","PeriodicalId":34958,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Geology","volume":"48 1","pages":"73-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.73","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Oligocene shortening in the Little Burro Mountains of southwest New Mexico 新墨西哥西南部小巴罗山脉渐新世缩短
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.169
Donald W. Tomlinson, P. Copeland, M. Murphy, T. Lapen
{"title":"Oligocene shortening in the Little Burro Mountains of southwest New Mexico","authors":"Donald W. Tomlinson, P. Copeland, M. Murphy, T. Lapen","doi":"10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.169","url":null,"abstract":"Laramide-style shortening structures in southwest New Mexico chiefly affect Cretaceous and older rocks, making the estimation of the cessation of shortening in the Paleogene problematic. The cessation of Laramide shortening is generally thought to be about 40 Ma in southwest New Mexico. However, in the Silver City Range, Grant County, New Mexico, shortening younger than 34.6 Ma was documented by Copeland et al. (2011). The Little Burro Mountains, 10–20 km south of the Silver City Range, contain a monocline trending northwest–southeast with beds dipping ∼12° in the backlimb and up to 30° in the forelimb. The youngest folded unit in the monocline is the tuff of Wind Mountain (Twt), which yielded a 206 Pb/ 238 U zircon age of 30.9 ± 0.5 Ma. Normal faults strike orthogonal to the axial trace of the fold with low displacement (10s of meters), which we interpret to have formed synchronous with the monocline to accommodate variations in shortening along strike. Field observations, trishear fault-propagationfold modeling, and the structural style and trends of the region are consistent with the development of the monocline related to a deeply rooted blind thrust or reverse fault. These results indicate that Laramide-style shortening in southwest New Mexico was active into the late Oligocene.","PeriodicalId":34958,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Geology","volume":"48 1","pages":"169-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.169","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68311798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
Petrology of Stewart Mountain basalt field in central Arizona, U.S.A.: A lithospheric source with small-scale trace element and isotopic heterogeneities 美国亚利桑那州中部斯图尔特山玄武岩田的岩石学:具有小尺度微量元素和同位素非均质性的岩石圈源
Rocky Mountain Geology Pub Date : 2013-09-01 DOI: 10.2113/GSROCKY.48.2.185
K. I. Singer, R. V. Fodor
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