The Bighorn Basin Wyoming: Faults, Folds, and the Petroleum Trap:

Wyoming consists of a set of basins separated by mountain belts uplifted during the Laramide Orogeny. This book focuses on the Bighorn Basin, its geologic structure, and petroleum resources. The basin is located in the north central part of the state. Faults and folds are covered over by younger sedimentary rock sequences which allowed the basin to become a major petroleum producer in the western US. This book sets out to address the Bighorn Basin petroleum province through discussion on re...