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Here, I present results from central Idaho and southwestern Montana, where the deformation and exhumation associated with Laramide basement-cored uplifts overlap with that associated with the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, and the tectono-thermal history of the region remains unresolved. I applied zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe), and apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe), in combination with inverse modeling using the programs HeFTy and QTQt, to examine regional thermal trends such as the Rodinia supercontinent cycle (recorded in basement uplifts), and the Sevier and Laramide orogenies (observed in thrust belt rocks). I present n=108 new ZHe dates, and n=67 new AHe dates, collected along a transect from central Idaho to southwestern Montana. Deep-time inverse modeling of foreland basement-cored ranges indicates substantial cooling from >400 ˚C to near surface conditions between 800 and 510 Ma, coinciding with the initiation of Rodinia rifting and subsequent Snowball Earth glaciation. I interpret this late-Paleozoic exhumation pulse as the creation of the Great Unconformity surface in this region. Samples from the interior Sevier fold-thrust belt in Idaho yield ZHe dates and model ages ranging from 82 Ma to 34 Ma that I interpret to record exhumation related to Sevier-aged contractional tectonics as well as post-orogenic collapse. ZHe model dates from samples in the Laramide-style, basement-involved foreland uplifts span 68 to 53 Ma, which indicate that exhumation was concomitant with exhumation in the interior fold thrust belt. My data, integrated with independent timing constraints from foreland basin strata and previously published thermochronometric results, suggest that mid-Cretaceous uplift of basement-cored uplifts in southwestern Montana was low-magnitude and preceded tectonism along the classic Laramide “corridor” from southern California to Wyoming. 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Here, I present results from central Idaho and southwestern Montana, where the deformation and exhumation associated with Laramide basement-cored uplifts overlap with that associated with the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, and the tectono-thermal history of the region remains unresolved. I applied zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe), and apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe), in combination with inverse modeling using the programs HeFTy and QTQt, to examine regional thermal trends such as the Rodinia supercontinent cycle (recorded in basement uplifts), and the Sevier and Laramide orogenies (observed in thrust belt rocks). I present n=108 new ZHe dates, and n=67 new AHe dates, collected along a transect from central Idaho to southwestern Montana. Deep-time inverse modeling of foreland basement-cored ranges indicates substantial cooling from >400 ˚C to near surface conditions between 800 and 510 Ma, coinciding with the initiation of Rodinia rifting and subsequent Snowball Earth glaciation. I interpret this late-Paleozoic exhumation pulse as the creation of the Great Unconformity surface in this region. Samples from the interior Sevier fold-thrust belt in Idaho yield ZHe dates and model ages ranging from 82 Ma to 34 Ma that I interpret to record exhumation related to Sevier-aged contractional tectonics as well as post-orogenic collapse. ZHe model dates from samples in the Laramide-style, basement-involved foreland uplifts span 68 to 53 Ma, which indicate that exhumation was concomitant with exhumation in the interior fold thrust belt. My data, integrated with independent timing constraints from foreland basin strata and previously published thermochronometric results, suggest that mid-Cretaceous uplift of basement-cored uplifts in southwestern Montana was low-magnitude and preceded tectonism along the classic Laramide “corridor” from southern California to Wyoming. 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