Geological region
Wyoming Province
Also known as Wyoming Archean Province
An Archean province of the western United States, described by the USGS chromite model as containing the Beartooth Range as a major block. The Stillwater Complex lies along its faulted front.
Classification
- region kind
- craton
- domain realm
- northAmerica
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EstablishedAn Archean province whose internal structure is expressed as a gravity gradient.
The ~2.7 Ga Stillwater Complex lies along a persistent high-gradient gravity zone related to the faulted front of the Beartooth Range, described by the USGS chromite model as a major block in the Wyoming Archean Province.
- method: The structure is identified from a gravity gradient, which is an inference from a potential field rather than a mapped contact.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence · one source
Evidence: Schulte 2012 · Primary authority
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