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Volume: 51 (1967)

Issue: 11. (November)

First Page: 2260

Last Page: 2280

Title: Paleozoic Geologic Development of Canon City Embayment, Colorado

Author(s): Lee C. Gerhard (2)

Abstract:

The Canon City embayment of Colorado has had a varied structural and sedimentologic history, including a post-Ordovician and pre-Pennsylvanian vertical structural reversal. Measured sections and isopachous maps demonstrate that early Paleozoic and Ancestral Rocky Mountain structural features occupy the same areas and are congruent with features resulting from Laramide deformation. The Priest Canyon Member of the upper Fremont Limestone is rejected, and the Williams Canyon Limestone is shown to have a much more restricted outcrop than previously thought. An early Paleozoic tectonic element of the Sierra Grande arch, the Canon City prong, affected early Paleozoic sedimentation of the Canon City area before pre-Ancestral Rocky Mountain movements.

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