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Fold mountains

    23-Mar-95 04:28:56
Sb: #175510-Fold mountains
Fm: Don Kenney 72630,3560
To: Jim Yahr 71524,1252
>>>The Ouichita/Marathon fold/thrust belt in Oklahoma and Texas is Late Permian (Wolfcampian/Leonardian) in age.<<< As I recall, those folds are thought by some to be related to the Applachians. Do you know how they were dated? Problem is that except for a small subsurface patch of Jurrasic redbeds in Michigan there are no sediments in mid-America between the Permian and the Cretaceous. It's hard to date structures in the area that are post Permian and pre-Cretaceous from the sediments. There aren't any.