Index [Italic page numbers indicate major references] Abbott Formation, 411 379 Bear River Formation, 163 Abo Formation, 281, 282, 286, 302 seismicity, 22 Bear Springs Formation, 315 Absaroka Mountains, 111 Appalachian Orogen, 5, 9, 13, 28 Bearpaw cyclothem, 80 Absaroka sequence, 37, 44, 50, 186, Appalachian Plateau, 9, 427 Bearpaw Mountains, 111 191,233,251, 275, 377, 378, Appalachian Province, 28 Beartooth Mountains, 201, 203 383, 409 Appalachian Ridge, 427 Beartooth shelf, 92, 94 Absaroka thrust fault, 158, 159 Appalachian Shelf, 32 Beartooth uplift, 92, 110, 114 Acadian orogen, 403, 452 Appalachian Trough, 460 Beaver Creek thrust fault, 157 Adaville Formation, 164 Appalachian Valley, 427 Beaver Island, 366 Adirondack Mountains, 6, 433 Araby Formation, 435 Beaverhead Group, 101, 104 Admire Group, 325 Arapahoe Formation, 189 Bedford Shale, 376 Agate Creek fault, 123, 182 Arapien Shale, 71, 73, 74 Beekmantown Group, 440, 445 Alabama, 36, 427,471 Arbuckle anticline, 327, 329, 331 Belden Shale, 57, 123, 127 Alacran Mountain Formation, 283 Arbuckle Group, 186, 269 Bell Canyon Formation, 287 Alamosa Formation, 169, 170 Arbuckle Mountains, 309, 310, 312, Bell Creek oil field, Montana, 81 Alaska Bench Limestone, 93 328 Bell Ranch Formation, 72, 73 Alberta shelf, 92, 94 Arbuckle Uplift, 11, 37, 318, 324 Bell Shale, 375 Albion-Scioio oil field, Michigan, Archean rocks, 5, 49, 225 Belle Fourche River, 207 373 Archeolithoporella, 283 Belt Island complex, 97, 98 Albuquerque Basin, 111, 165, 167, Ardmore Basin, 11, 37, 307, 308, Belt Supergroup, 28, 53 168, 169 309, 317, 318, 326, 347 Bend Arch, 262, 275, 277, 290, 346, Algonquin Arch, 361 Arikaree Formation, 165, 190 347 Alibates Bed, 326 Arizona, 19, 43, 44, S3, 67. 299 bentonite, 207 Allegan Platform, 365, 373, 374, coal mine, 81 Berd Group, 343 376, 379 Arkansas Basin, 169 Berea Sandstone, 376 Alleghanian Orogeny, 39 Arkansas River, 49 Berwyn syncline, 329, 331 Allegheny Group, 461 Arkansas River fault, 123, 127 Big Limestone, 323 Alliance Basin, 40, 95 Arkansas, 8, 9, 309 Big Snowy Group, 92, 93, 94, 233 Allison Member, 132 Arkoma Basin, 11, 39, 307, 308, Big Snowy trough, 92, 93, 98 Almond Formation, 81, 164 309, 317, 318, 323, 331 Big Snowy uplift, 110 Altamont Limestone, 323 Arkoma Shelf, 331, 337, 338 Bighorn basin, 95, 111, 201 Amalia Tuff, 165 Arroyo Montosa, 165 tectonics, 201 Amarillo Uplift, 37, 318, 325, 341, Arthrophycus, 447 Bighorn Dolomite, 87, 89, 160, 199 343 Ashern Formation, 230 Bighorn Mountains, 196, 200, 203 Amarillo-Wichita Uplift, 10, 40, 318 Aspen Shale, 163 Bighorn uplift, 113 See also Wichita-Amarillo Uplift Atlantic Continental Margin, 41, 42 Billings anticline, 224, 228, 230 Amsden Formation, 93, 162 Atoka Formation, 277, 337 Billings Nose fields, 239 Amsden Group, 93 Atoka Group, 350 Birdbear Formation, 232 Anadarko Basin, 11, 30, 31, 35, 36, Atwell Gulch Member, 149 Bisher Dolomite, 448 37, 40, 269, 309, 314, 317, Aux Vases Sandstone, 407 Bishop Conglomerate, 165 318, 327, 329, 379 Avant Limestone, 324 Bismarck-Williston lineament, 226, Ancestral Front Range, 173 Axial arch, 158 230 Ancestral Rocky Mountains, 34, 38, Aztec Sandstone, 68 Black Hills, 48, 82, 93, 163, 185, 39, 41, 54, 57, 67, 70, 73, 206 109, 113, 115, 116, 170, 318 Backbone Limestone, 403 Black Hills anticline, 99 Ancestral Sangre de Cristo uplift, 173 Bailey Limestone, 398, 403 Black Hills uplift, 112, 183, 207, Ancha Formation, 169, 170 Bakken Formation, 88, 89, 90, 91, 223, 225 Aneth Formation, 55, 122 232 Black Hills-Central Kansas uplift, Animas Formation, 133 Bald Eagle Sandstone, 445, 446, 448 243 Ankareh Formation, 162 Bangor Limestone, 459, 484 Black Mesa Basin, 134, 136, 138, Antelope anticline, 230 Bannock high, 92, 93, 95 141 Antero Formation, 182 Bamett Shale, 294 Black River Limestone, 373, 379 Antes-Reedsville sequence, 445 Bartlesville-Bluejacket Sandstone Black River sequence, 443 Antler orogen, 36, 37 Member, Boggy Formation, 340 Black River Valley, 443 Antrim Shale, 375, 376 Bartlett Barren Member, 131 Black Warrior Basin, 36, 334, 337, Anvil Points Member, 152 Basal Sandstone Member, 152 338, 427, 471 Apishapa uplift, 37, 173, 183, 193, Basin and Range Province, 19, 112, Blackleaf Formation, 99 318, 324 113, 114, 264, 265 Blackwater Draw Formation, 354 Apishapa-Ancestral Front Range Bass Island Formation, 449 Blair Formation, 164 uplift, 173 Bass Islands, 374 Blanco gas field, New Mexico, 81, Appalachian Basin, 33, 36, 39, 427 Battle Spring Formation, 164 134 Appalachian Foldbelt, 9, 11, 272 Baxter Shale, 164 Bloomsburg Formation, 446, 447 Appalachian Mountains, 8, 9, 10, 12, Bayport Limestone, 435 Bloyd Formation, 335 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/3733350/9780813754499_backmatter.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 498 Index Blue Grass region, Kentucky, 446 310, 427, 478 Chalk Draw Fault, 297 Blue Ridge Mountains, 430 Cambridge arch, 243, 321 Chama-Ojo Caliente Formation, 169 Blue Ridge Province, Appalachian Camp Rice Formation, 169, 170 Chambersburg Limestone, 445 orogen, 9, 13 Canaan Peak Formation, 144 Champlain rift basin, 433 Blue Ridge thrust. 28, 427 Canadian Shield, 5, 30, 31, 33, 37, Chappo Member, 164 Bluefield Formation, 459 92, 93, 221, 225, 230, 365, Charles Formation, 91, 233 Bluestone Formation, 461 383, 387, 398 Chase Group, 325 Boggy Formation, 340 Cannonball Member, 235 Chattanooga Shale, 91, 309, 453, Bois Blanc Formation, 375 Cannonball Sea, 200 454, 456 Bone Spring Formation, 282, 283, Canyon City embayment, 194 Checkerboard Limestone, 324 287 Canyon Group, 277, 343, 350, 351 Chepultepec Dolomite, 440 Bonneterre Formation, 245 Canyon Springs Sandstone Member, Chernyshinella granulosa, 56 Book Cliffs, 81 Sundance Formation, 71 Cherokee arch, 154, 159, 160 Boone Formation, 316, 480 Canyonlands National Park, 60, 61 Cherokee Group, 323 Borden Delta, 407 Cap au Gres faulted flexure, 392, 409 Cherokee Platform, 318 Borden Formation, 456 Capitan Formation, 283 Cherry Canyon Formation, 283, 287 Boreas Pass fault, 123 Capitan reef complex, 280, 283, 284 Chickachoc Chert, 337 Bossardville Limestone, 449 Carbondale Group, 411 Chickamauga Limestone, 442 Bostwick Member, 327, 330 Carboniferous, 28, 41 Chico Ridge carbonal bank system, Bothryolepis coloradensis, 56 Carlile Formation, 188 351 Bouguer gravity-anomaly patterns, 9, Carmel Formation, 67, 68, 71, 72, Chihuahua Trough, 299 11 137, 138, 144, 162 Chilhowee Group, 430, 476 Boulder batholith, 94, 98, 99, 101 Carrizo Mountains, 133 Chilhowee Mountain, 457 Boulder County, Colorado, 182 Carter Creek Formation, 99 Chimneyhill Formation, 272 Bowdoin dome, 223 Caseyville Formation, 411 Chimneyhill Group, 314 Bowie Delta Complex, 350 Casper arch, 196 Chinati Mountains, 297 Bowling Green fault, 366 Cass County, Michigan, 366 Chinati-Chalk Draw Uplift, 297 Bradford Group, 454 Castile Formation, 288 Chinle Formation, 62, 162 Braggs Limestone Member, Sausbee Castle Rock Conglomerate, 181, 190 Choctaw Fault, 331 Formation, 337 Castlegate Sandstone, 148 Chouteau Limestone, 407 Brassfield Limestone, 447, 448 Cat Creek, 224 Chuar Group, 53 Breathitt Formation, 461, 463 Catoctin Greenstone, 427, 430, 431 Chugwater Formation, 96 Brentwood Limestone, 337 Catskill clastic wedge, 36 Chugwater Group, 162 Bridger Formation, 165 Catskill delta complex, 448, 452, Churchill province, Canada, 10 Bright Angel Shale, 54 453 Cimarron arch, 321, 323, 324 Broadtop basin, 457, 458 Catskill Mountains, 452 Cincinnati arch, 11, 17, 32, 34, 38, Brockton-Froid-Fromberg fault zone, Cedar Creek anticline, 90, 99, 223, 387, 427, 442, 447, 448, 449, 223, 225, 226 224, 228, 229, 232, 235, 238, 460 Broom Creek Formation, 234 239 Circle Cliffs, 138, 141 Brown Dolomite, 325 Cedar Hills Sandstone, 326 Circle Cliffs uplift, 57, 61 Browns Park Formation, 165 Cedar Mesa Sandstone, 59, 60, 120 Cisco Group, 277, 343, 352 Brownsville Limestone, 325 Cedar Mountain Formation, 141, 163 Claggett Cyclothem, 80 Bruce Peninsula, 369 Cedar Valley Limestone, 403 Clay City Anticlinal Belt, 392 Bruggers Sandstone, 372, 373, 377, Ceja Member, Santa Fe Formation, Clayton Formation, 420 378, 379 169 Clear Creek Chert, 403 Brushy Basin Member, 141 Cenomanian, 45 Clear Fork Formation, 282, 286, Brushy Canyon Formation, 287 Cenozoic, 17, 19, 28, 48, 99, 111, 344, 346 Buff Member, Santa Fe Formation, 144,254,486 Cleary Coal Member, 132, 134 169 Central Basin Platform, 37, 40, 277, Cliff House Sandstone, 131, 132, 134 Buffalo Springs Formation, 438 278, 286 Clifton Forge Sandstone, 450 Bug Field, 122 Central Basin Uplift, 269, 277, 278, Clifty Sandstone, 315 Burket Member, Harrell Shale, 452 286 Clinch Mountain, Tennessee, 447, Burleigh high, 222, 224, 226 Central Colorado basin, 37 456 Burlington Bank, 407 Central Colorado trough, 123, 127, Clinch Sandstone, 447 Burlington Formation, 407 173 Clinetop Algal Member, 54 Burnam Limestone, 315 Central Kansas Uplift, 38, 324 Clinton Formation, 373, 378, 379 Bumet County, Texas, 315 Central Lowlands, crustal thickness, Clinton Group, 446, 448 Burro Canyon Formation, 130 12 Cloud Chief Formation, 326 Burro-Florida-Moyotes uplift, 299 Central Montana trough, 36, 37, 48, Cloverly Formation, 98, 163 Butchtown Limestone, 396 83, 89, 91, 92, 93, 98, 101 Cloyd Conglomerate, 455 Central Montana uplift, 89, 90, 99 Coahuila Platform, 299 Cabaniss Group, 334, 340 Central Oklahoma arch, 323 coal, 81, 130, 132, 134, 142, 144, Cabot Head Shale, 373, 448 Ceratopea, 440 149, 195, 200, 201, 204, 206, Cache Creek fault, 156 Cerritos de los Minos, 165 207, 351, 379, 411, 471 Cache la Poudre, 189 Chadron