Abstract
During the Laramide Orogeny several major folds were formed in Southern Utah, one of those being the Raplee Ridge anticline. Raplee Ridge is approximately eight miles from Mexican Hat, Utah. The San Juan River cuts through the anticline, exposing the Honaker Trail Formation’s beds of shale and limestone with chert nodules. Accompanying the mountain-scale ductile deformation of the Raplee Ridge anticline are decimeter-scale brittle conjugate fractures in the limestone’s chert nodules. The objective of this study is to compare the orientation of paleostress that formed the Raplee Ridge anticline with the conjugate fractures within the chert nodules to see if the two different styles of deformation could have occurred during the same orogeny.
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Holyoak, Loren Randall and MacLean, John S.
(2019)
"Orientation of Paleostress of Raplee Ridge Anticline,"
The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon:
Vol. 90:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/compass/vol90/iss1/2
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