The Permo-Carboniferous Orogeny in the South-central United States |
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AAPG Alps Ancestral Rocky Ancestral Rocky Mountains anticline Appalachians Arbuckle Mountains Arbuckle orogeny Arbuckle phase Ardmore Ardmore Basin Arkansas Atoka autochtone basal basement beds blocks boulders buried Cambrian Caney Carboniferous central chert Cisco clastic conglomerates Cretaceous Criner Hills deposits detritus Devonian diastrophism domes east eastern entire erosion evidence exotic exposed farther fault feet flysch folds foredeep foreland formation front frontal Geological Glass Mountains granite hinterland Hunton Arch indicated Jackfork Kansas late-Paleozoic limestone lower Marathon Mountains massif metamorphic Mexico Mississippian molasse mountain system nappe northern Novaculite occur Oklahoma older Ordovician orogenic phase orogeny Ouachita facies Ouachita geosyncline Ouachita Mountains Ouachita system outcrops overlying overthrusting Paleozoic Pennsylvanian Permian Plateau pre-Cambrian pre-Carboniferous ranges redbeds region ridges rocks Salt Basin sandstone sediments sequence shale Solitario southeastern southern strata Strawn structure Tertiary Tesnus Texas thickness thrust thrustsheets trough unconformity uplift Variscan western Wichita chains Wichita Mountains Wichita system zone