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Eocene extension in Idaho generated massive sediment floods into the Franciscan trench and into the Tyee, Great Valley, and Green River basins

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Dumitru, Trevor A., Ernst, W.G., Wright, James E., Wooden, Joseph L., Wells, Ray E., Farmer, Lucia P., Kent, Adam J.R., and Graham, Stephan A.

Abstract:

The Franciscan Complex accretionary prism was assembled during an similar to 165-m.y.-long period of subduction of Pacific Ocean plates beneath the western margin of the North American plate. In such fossil subduction complexes, it is generally difficult to reconstruct details of the accretion of continent-derived sediments and to evaluate the...

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