Complex Archean lower crustal structure revealed by COCORP crustal reflection profiling in the Wind River Range, Wyoming

Details Complex Archean lower crustal structure revealed by COCORP crustal reflection profiling in the Wind River Range, Wyoming Complex Archean lower crustal structure revealed by COCORP crustal reflection profiling in the Wind River Range, Wyoming

Jan 1980

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 46, Issue 2, p. 295-305.

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A COCORP deep crustal reflection profile across the Wind River uplift crosses exposed Archean rocks and resolves an unusual complex deep crustal structure at a depth of 24-31 km in an area where depth relations in Precambrian rocks can be inferred. The different levels of exposure across the beveled plunge of the Wind River uplift reveal supracrustal rocks at shallower levels with migmatites and pyroxene granulites at deeper levels. For the first time, deep crustal structure from reflection profiling may be interpreted in terms of exposed basement geology. A folded, multilayered deep structure shown by relfection data resembles multiply folded pyroxene granulite interlayered with granitic gneiss exposed in the central Wind River uplift; isoclinal folding is suggested in the folded layered seismic structure. Earlier seismic reflection studies suggested a simpler lower crust. These data indicate that lower crustal structure may have a complexity similar to deeply eroded Precambrian granulite-facies rocks. If this seismic feature represents folded metamorphic rocks, it seems unlikely that this Archean crust could have been thickened by underplating after 2.7 b.y. B.P. and the crust would have to be at least 30 km thich when this structure was formed.

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