Structural architecture and glacitectonic evolution of the Mud Buttes cupola hill complex, southern Alberta, Canada

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Phillips, Emrys, Evans, David J.A., Atkinson, Nigel, Kendall, Allison
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Canada; Cupola; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516960/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516960/1/Phillips%20et%20al%20mud%20buttes%20QSR%20paper.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.027

This paper presents the results of a detailed multidisciplinary study of the deformed bedrock and overlying Quaternary sediments exposed at the Mud Buttes in southern Alberta, Canada. This large, arcuate cupola hill is composed of intensely folded and thrust sandstones, siltstones and mudstones of t...