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Brandon Lutz, PhD (Former Employee)

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Measuring paleoflow directions in the overturned beds of the Pennsylvanian Atoka Formation at the Paris Spillway, Paris, AR

Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect

The Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect (ODABOuT) project examines the three-dimensional geology of a transect of the southern orogenic margin of North America in its best surface exposure in western Arkansas. The Ozark Dome and Arkoma Basin represent a foreland uplift and foreland basin that formed as a result of the impinging Ouachita orogenic belt. Understanding the geometry and evolution...
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Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect

Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect

The Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect (ODABOuT) project examines the three-dimensional geology of a transect of the southern orogenic margin of North America in its best surface exposure in western Arkansas. The Ozark Dome and Arkoma Basin represent a foreland uplift and foreland basin that formed as a result of the impinging Ouachita orogenic belt. Understanding the geometry and evolution...
Learn More

Digital database of the previously published geomorphic-structural map of the Ouachita Mountains Digital database of the previously published geomorphic-structural map of the Ouachita Mountains

The Ouachita Mountains record the late Paleozoic Laurentia-Gondwana orogenic event along southern Paleo-North America during Pangea supercontinent formation. This data release contains a digital compilation of geomorphic-structural information from the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas as previously published by Arbenz (2008). The geodatabase...
By
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Constraining the onset of carboniferous cyclicity in the Arkoma Basin of the Midcontinent, North America: Implications for calibrating a globally significant latest Bashkirian transgression Constraining the onset of carboniferous cyclicity in the Arkoma Basin of the Midcontinent, North America: Implications for calibrating a globally significant latest Bashkirian transgression

Cyclothems are defined by the repeat juxtaposition of littoral and open marine successions over short stratigraphic distances (meters to 10's of meters) and are interpreted to be driven by glacioeustatic forcing of sea level during the late Paleozoic Ice Age. The concept of cyclothems was defined in the Midcontinent region of the United States. However, correlating the Midcontinent...
Authors
Neil Patrick Griffis, Marieke Dechesne, Tyson Michael Smith, Mark R. Hudson, Charles M. Henderson, Roland Mundil, Mikel Shinn, Justin E. Birdwell, Laura Pianowski, Brandon Michael Lutz, Cameron Mark Mercer, Leah E. Morgan, Leland Robson Spangler
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Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic

During the assembly of Pangea, peri-Gondwanan terranes collided with the eastern and southern margins of Laurentia and brought with them unique detrital zircon U-Pb signatures. Discriminating between individual peri-Gondwanan terranes in the detrital record is difficult due to their similar geologic histories. However, characterization of this provenance is critical for understanding...
Authors
Tyson Michael Smith, Marieke Dechesne, Jaime Ann Megumi Hirtz, Glenn R. Sharman, Mark R. Hudson, Brandon Michael Lutz, Neil Patrick Griffis
By
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Influence of inherited structure on flexural extension in foreland basin systems: Evidence from the northern Arkoma basin and southern Ozark dome, USA Influence of inherited structure on flexural extension in foreland basin systems: Evidence from the northern Arkoma basin and southern Ozark dome, USA

Extensional faults are key components of foreland basin systems. They form within the upper crust in response to flexure of the lithosphere and accommodate subsidence within the foredeep and forebulge depozones. Such faults are excellent proxies for orogenic system evolution and control the distribution of natural resources and hazards. However, the spatiotemporal evolution of flexural...
Authors
Brandon Michael Lutz, Mark R. Hudson, Tyson Michael Smith, Marieke Dechesne, Leland Robson Spangler, Anne E. McCafferty, Chelsea Morgan Amaral, Neil Patrick Griffis, Jaime Ann Megumi Hirtz
By
Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Non-USGS Publications**

Lutz, B.M., Axen, G., van Wijk, J., Phillips, F. , 2022, Whole-lithosphere shear during oblique rifting: Geology, v. 50, p. 412–416, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49603.1
Lutz, B., Ketcham., R., Axen, G., Beyenne, M., Wells, M., van Wijk, J., Stockli, D., Ross, J., 2021, Thermo-kinematic modeling of detachment-dominated extension, northeastern Death Valley Area, SW USA: Implications for mid-crustal thermo-rheological evolution. Tectonophysics v. 808 228755

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

Science and Products

Measuring paleoflow directions in the overturned beds of the Pennsylvanian Atoka Formation at the Paris Spillway, Paris, AR

Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect

The Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect (ODABOuT) project examines the three-dimensional geology of a transect of the southern orogenic margin of North America in its best surface exposure in western Arkansas. The Ozark Dome and Arkoma Basin represent a foreland uplift and foreland basin that formed as a result of the impinging Ouachita orogenic belt. Understanding the geometry and evolution...
By
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect

Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect

The Ozark Dome-Arkoma Basin-Ouachita Transect (ODABOuT) project examines the three-dimensional geology of a transect of the southern orogenic margin of North America in its best surface exposure in western Arkansas. The Ozark Dome and Arkoma Basin represent a foreland uplift and foreland basin that formed as a result of the impinging Ouachita orogenic belt. Understanding the geometry and evolution...
Learn More

Digital database of the previously published geomorphic-structural map of the Ouachita Mountains Digital database of the previously published geomorphic-structural map of the Ouachita Mountains

The Ouachita Mountains record the late Paleozoic Laurentia-Gondwana orogenic event along southern Paleo-North America during Pangea supercontinent formation. This data release contains a digital compilation of geomorphic-structural information from the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas as previously published by Arbenz (2008). The geodatabase...
By
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Constraining the onset of carboniferous cyclicity in the Arkoma Basin of the Midcontinent, North America: Implications for calibrating a globally significant latest Bashkirian transgression Constraining the onset of carboniferous cyclicity in the Arkoma Basin of the Midcontinent, North America: Implications for calibrating a globally significant latest Bashkirian transgression

Cyclothems are defined by the repeat juxtaposition of littoral and open marine successions over short stratigraphic distances (meters to 10's of meters) and are interpreted to be driven by glacioeustatic forcing of sea level during the late Paleozoic Ice Age. The concept of cyclothems was defined in the Midcontinent region of the United States. However, correlating the Midcontinent...
Authors
Neil Patrick Griffis, Marieke Dechesne, Tyson Michael Smith, Mark R. Hudson, Charles M. Henderson, Roland Mundil, Mikel Shinn, Justin E. Birdwell, Laura Pianowski, Brandon Michael Lutz, Cameron Mark Mercer, Leah E. Morgan, Leland Robson Spangler
By
Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic

During the assembly of Pangea, peri-Gondwanan terranes collided with the eastern and southern margins of Laurentia and brought with them unique detrital zircon U-Pb signatures. Discriminating between individual peri-Gondwanan terranes in the detrital record is difficult due to their similar geologic histories. However, characterization of this provenance is critical for understanding...
Authors
Tyson Michael Smith, Marieke Dechesne, Jaime Ann Megumi Hirtz, Glenn R. Sharman, Mark R. Hudson, Brandon Michael Lutz, Neil Patrick Griffis
By
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Influence of inherited structure on flexural extension in foreland basin systems: Evidence from the northern Arkoma basin and southern Ozark dome, USA Influence of inherited structure on flexural extension in foreland basin systems: Evidence from the northern Arkoma basin and southern Ozark dome, USA

Extensional faults are key components of foreland basin systems. They form within the upper crust in response to flexure of the lithosphere and accommodate subsidence within the foredeep and forebulge depozones. Such faults are excellent proxies for orogenic system evolution and control the distribution of natural resources and hazards. However, the spatiotemporal evolution of flexural...
Authors
Brandon Michael Lutz, Mark R. Hudson, Tyson Michael Smith, Marieke Dechesne, Leland Robson Spangler, Anne E. McCafferty, Chelsea Morgan Amaral, Neil Patrick Griffis, Jaime Ann Megumi Hirtz
By
Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Non-USGS Publications**

Lutz, B.M., Axen, G., van Wijk, J., Phillips, F. , 2022, Whole-lithosphere shear during oblique rifting: Geology, v. 50, p. 412–416, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49603.1
Lutz, B., Ketcham., R., Axen, G., Beyenne, M., Wells, M., van Wijk, J., Stockli, D., Ross, J., 2021, Thermo-kinematic modeling of detachment-dominated extension, northeastern Death Valley Area, SW USA: Implications for mid-crustal thermo-rheological evolution. Tectonophysics v. 808 228755

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

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