About: Paradox Basin

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The Paradox Basin is an asymmetric foreland basin located mostly in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, but extending into northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. The basin is a large elongate northwest to southeast oriented depression formed during the late Paleozoic Era. The basin is bordered on the east by the tectonically uplifted Uncompahgre Plateau, on the northwest by the San Rafael Swell and extends partway into the Monument Uplift to the west.

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  • Das Paradox-Becken ist ein asymmetrisches Vorlandbecken, das vorwiegend im Südosten des US-amerikanischen Bundesstaates Utah gelegen ist, aber auch auf das südwestliche Colorado, das nordwestliche New Mexico und den äußersten Nordosten Arizonas übergreift. Dieses etwa 40.000 Quadratkilometer große Sedimentbecken bildete sich während des späten Paläozoikums; die beckenbildenden Prozesse waren vom Oberkarbon bis zum Ausgang des Perms aktiv. Im Gegensatz zu den anderen Sedimentbecken in den Rocky Mountains ist das Paradox-Becken zum Großteil aus Evaporiten aufgebaut. Die Sedimente wurden in abwechselnden Flachwasser/Tiefwasser-Zyklen abgelagert. Wegen der mächtigen Salzabfolgen spielt Salztektonik (Steinsalz ist selbst schon bei relativ niedrigen Temperaturen plastisch verformbar) bei den nach dem Pennsylvanium einsetzenden strukturellen Verformungen eine Hauptrolle. (de)
  • The Paradox Basin is an asymmetric foreland basin located mostly in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, but extending into northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. The basin is a large elongate northwest to southeast oriented depression formed during the late Paleozoic Era. The basin is bordered on the east by the tectonically uplifted Uncompahgre Plateau, on the northwest by the San Rafael Swell and extends partway into the Monument Uplift to the west. Its area is roughly 33,000 square miles (85470 km2). The combined sedimentary strata of the Paradox Basin are more than 15,000 feet (4600 m) thick in some places. Unlike most Rocky Mountain basins, the Paradox Basin is an evaporite basin containing sediments from alternating cycles of deep marine and very shallow water. As a result of the thick salt sequences and the fact that salt is ductile at relatively low temperatures and pressures, salt tectonics play a major role in the post-Pennsylvanian structural deformation within the basin. (en)
  • Il bacino Paradox è un bacino di avampaese asimmetrico degli Stati Uniti d'America, situato per la maggior parte nella parte sudest dell'Utah e nel sudovest del Colorado, ma che si estende anche fino al nordest dell'Arizona e al nordovest del Nuovo Messico. È una vasta depressione allungata in direzione nordovest-sudest e che si è formata verso la fine del Paleozoico. Il suo nome deriva dall'essere posizionato nella . (it)
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  • Il bacino Paradox è un bacino di avampaese asimmetrico degli Stati Uniti d'America, situato per la maggior parte nella parte sudest dell'Utah e nel sudovest del Colorado, ma che si estende anche fino al nordest dell'Arizona e al nordovest del Nuovo Messico. È una vasta depressione allungata in direzione nordovest-sudest e che si è formata verso la fine del Paleozoico. Il suo nome deriva dall'essere posizionato nella . (it)
  • Das Paradox-Becken ist ein asymmetrisches Vorlandbecken, das vorwiegend im Südosten des US-amerikanischen Bundesstaates Utah gelegen ist, aber auch auf das südwestliche Colorado, das nordwestliche New Mexico und den äußersten Nordosten Arizonas übergreift. Dieses etwa 40.000 Quadratkilometer große Sedimentbecken bildete sich während des späten Paläozoikums; die beckenbildenden Prozesse waren vom Oberkarbon bis zum Ausgang des Perms aktiv. (de)
  • The Paradox Basin is an asymmetric foreland basin located mostly in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, but extending into northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. The basin is a large elongate northwest to southeast oriented depression formed during the late Paleozoic Era. The basin is bordered on the east by the tectonically uplifted Uncompahgre Plateau, on the northwest by the San Rafael Swell and extends partway into the Monument Uplift to the west. (en)
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  • Paradox-Becken (de)
  • Bacino Paradox (it)
  • Paradox Basin (en)
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