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Special thanks to Tim Reed for discussions on salt tectonics

Lateral terminations of salt walls and megaflaps: An example
from Gypsum Valley Diapir, Paradox Basin, Colorado, USA
2019 Frederic O. Escosa1 | Mark G. Rowan2 | Katherine A. Giles3 | Kyle T. Deatrick3 |
Allison M. Mast3 | Richard P. Langford3 | Thomas E. Hearon IV4 | Eduard Roca1

The Paradox Salt Basin, Utah and Colorado: Recognition of New Types of Salt Structures and Their Impact on Salt-Related Traps*
Katherine A. Giles1, Thomas Hearon2, Mark Rowan3, and Rip Langford1

Controls on the structural and stratigraphic evolution of the megaflap-bearing Sinbad Valley salt wall, NE Paradox Basin, SW Colorado
Jessica Ann Thompson Jobe1,2,*, Katherine A. Giles1, Thomas E. Hearon IV3,†, Mark G. Rowan4, Bruce Trudgill2, C. Evelyn Gannaway Dalton1, and
Zane R. Jobe2

Trudgill, B.D., 2011, Evolution of salt structures in the northern Paradox Basin: Controls on evaporite deposition, salt wall growth and supra-salt stratigraphic architecture