Sevier - Laramide Project Introduction
Sevier-Laramide Project Introduction The Sevier-Laramide Project is a publicly-accessible archive of photos, videos, maps, and papers that document exposures of Sevier and Laramide faults and folds from southern California to northern Montana. They were acquired by Dr. Robert W. Clayton, professor of Geology at Brigham Young University - Idaho during a 2025 Sabbatical. All materials here and on YouTube are copyrighted, but rights are hereby granted for photos and videos to be used for personal or educational, non-commercial use in homes, classrooms, seminars, and museums. Maps and papers from the USGS and Forest Service are free to use, but papers from professional societies and scientific publishers should be fully cited as being from their publishers. What's Are The Sevier and Laramide Orogenies? An "orogeny" is a mountain-building event. The Sevier orogeny took place in the western U.S. between about 140 and 60 million years ago along a band that roughly para...