Tectonic Fabrics, southern Rocky Mountains and Foothills, Alberta and British Columbia

1965 ◽  
Author(s):  
R A Price
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains

Degree of saturation with respect to CaCO3, CaMg(CO3)2, and CaSO4 for some thermal and mineral springs in the Southern Rocky Mountains, Alberta and British Columbia

1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1421-1430 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. O. van Everdingen
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
Equilibrium Constants ◽  
Degree Of Saturation ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
Mineral Springs ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains ◽  
Ion Activity ◽  
Ion Activity Products

Comparison of ion-activity products and equilibrium constants for solution of CaCO3, CaMg(CO3)2, and CaSO4 indicates that water from Fairmont Hot Springs and Banff Hot Springs, and from thermal springs in British Columbia, on Lussier River, Ram Creek and near Fording Mountain, are super-saturated with respect to CaCO3 and, to a lesser extent, with respect to CaMg(CO3)2. At other springs saturation occurs after water is discharged from the springs. In the case of hot springs this is caused by the rise in pH that accompanies loss of excess CO2 and, to a lesser degree, by evaporation; cooling of the water tends to lower the degree of saturation somewhat. At cold springs, increase in water temperature after discharge increases the degree of saturation. Only near-saturation with respect to CaSO4 is indicated for Miette Hot Springs, Fairmont Hot Springs, and Fording Mountain Springs; precipitation of CaSO4 may occur here owing to evaporation of part of the water; the effect of temperature on the degree of saturation is small.

Pruning to manage white pine blister rust in the southern Rocky Mountains

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Crump ◽  
William R. Jacobi ◽  
Kelly S. Burns ◽  
Brian E. Howell
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
White Pine Blister Rust ◽  
White Pine ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains ◽  
Blister Rust

Linking biophysical models and public preferences for ecosystem service assessments: a case study for the Southern Rocky Mountains

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 2005-2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Bagstad ◽  
James M. Reed ◽  
Darius J. Semmens ◽  
Benson C. Sherrouse ◽  
Austin Troy
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Public Preferences ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains ◽  
Biophysical Models

Ediacaran fossils and dubiofossils, Miette Group of Mount Fitzwilliam area, British Columbia

1991 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1541-1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Hofmann ◽  
E. W. Mountjoy ◽  
M. W. Teitz
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Carbonate Mounds ◽  
Windermere Supergroup

Shallow-water clastic beds flanking stromatolitic carbonate mounds in the upper part of the Vendian Miette Group (Windermere Supergroup) of the Rocky Mountains contain a poorly preserved, soft-bodied fauna that comprises morphologically very variable discoid remains; these include the taxa Beltanella sp., cf. B. grandis, Charniodiscus? sp., Irridinitus? sp., Nimbia occlusa, Protodipleurosoma sp., cf. P. rugulosum, and Zolotytsia? sp. and seven types of dubiofossils.

Tectonic controls on basement exhumation in the southern Rocky Mountains (United States): The power of combined zircon (U-Th)/He and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology

Geology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason W. Ricketts ◽  
Jacoup Roiz ◽  
Karl E. Karlstrom ◽  
Matthew T. Heizler ◽  
William R. Guenthner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Snowball Earth ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains ◽  
Basement Rocks ◽  
Rocky Mountain Region ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Inverse Models ◽  
Multiple Pulses ◽  
Differential Uplift

The Great Unconformity of the Rocky Mountain region (western North America), where Precambrian crystalline basement is nonconformably overlain by Phanerozoic strata, represents the removal of as much as 1.5 b.y. of rock record during 10-km-scale basement exhumation. We evaluate the timing of exhumation of basement rocks at five locations by combining geologic data with multiple thermochronometers. 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar multi-diffusion domain (MDD) modeling indicates regional multi-stage basement cooling from 275 to 150 °C occurred at 1250–1100 Ma and/or 1000–700 Ma. Zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe) dates from the Rocky Mountains range from 20 to 864 Ma, and independent forward modeling of ZHe data is also most consistent with multi-stage cooling. ZHe inverse models at five locations, combined with K-feldspar MDD and sample-specific geochronologic and/or thermochronologic constraints, document multiple pulses of basement cooling from 250 °C to surface temperatures with a major regional basement exhumation event 1300–900 Ma, limited cooling in some samples during the 770–570 Ma breakup of Rodinia and/or the 717–635 Ma snowball Earth, and ca. 300 Ma Ancestral Rocky Mountains cooling. These data argue for a tectonic control on basement exhumation leading up to formation of the Precambrian-Cambrian Great Unconformity and document the formation of composite erosional surfaces developed by faulting and differential uplift.

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