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Journal of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists
Vol. 7 (1959), No. 10. (October), Pages 234-237

Theoretical Approach to Foothills and Mountain Deformation of Western Alberta

A. L. Choquette

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Recent drilling has shown that foothills and mountain deformation in Alberta may have begun as a large overthrust similar to the adjacent Lewis overthrust. Subsequent compression of the overthrust mass has folded and faulted the original sole thrust and formed a series of imbricate faults in the overlying sediments.


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