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Sandstone body character, river styles, and geomorphology of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA

Sandstone body character, river styles, and geomorphology of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA

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Authors

Youwei WANG, Timothy Baars, Hiranya Sahoo, Joep Storms, Allard Martinius, Philip Gingerich, Hemmo Abels

Abstract

The lower Eocene Willwood Formation of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA, is an alluvial succession with a sand content varying around 25%. It has been studied intensively for palaeontology, palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimates, as well as sedimentological and stratigraphic analysis. Channel dynamics were studied at a relatively low resolution throughout the basin over the geological time from late Palaeocene to early Eocene. Here, a high-resolution study is reported to complement previous research at the basin scale. Efforts are made to document the characteristics and river planform styles of most sandstone bodies encountered through ca 300 ...  more

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31223/X5QP63

Subjects

Geology, Geomorphology, Sedimentology

Keywords

Bighorn Basin, Willwood Formation, channel sandstone body, river style, Willwood Formation, channel sandstone body, river style

Dates

Published: 2021-07-18 13:03

Last Updated: 2022-07-16 15:00

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CC BY Attribution 4.0 International

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