Altered volcanic ash layers of the Late Cretaceous San Felipe Formation, Sierra Madre Oriental (Northeastern Mexico): U Pb geochronology, provenance and tectonic setting

Velasco-Tapia, Fernando; Martínez-Paco, Margarita; Iriondo, Alexander; Ocampo-Díaz, Yam Zul Ernesto; Cruz-Gámez, Esther María; Ramos-Ledezma, Andrés; Andaverde, Jorge; Ostrooumov, Mikhail; Masuch, Dirk

doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2016.04.010

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“…This 2–3-km-thick Mesozoic belt consists of marine sedimentary material deposited over a complex basement that includes Meso and Neoproterozoic metamorphic rocks, Paleozoic schist/sedimentary, and Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic red beds. The rock units of SMO include carbonates, evaporites, and siliciclastic material, whose deposition and facies distribution varied through time as a result of tectonics, fluctuations of the sea level, and detrital source variation (Velasco-Tapia et al 2016 ). However, limestones and gypsum from Lower Cretaceous dominate the mineralogical composition.…”

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Assessment of major ions and trace elements in groundwater supplied to the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, Mexico

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The Monterrey metropolitan area (MMA) is the third greatest urban area and the second largest economic city of Mexico. More than four million people living in this megacity use groundwater for drinking, industrial and household purposes. Thus, major ion and trace element content were assessed in order to investigate the main hydrochemical properties of groundwater and determine if groundwater of the area poses a threat to the MMA population. Hierarchical cluster analysis using all the groundwater chemical data showed five groups of water. The first two groups were classified as recharge waters (Ca-HCO3) coming from the foothills of mountain belts. The third group was also of Ca-HCO3 water type flowing through lutites and limestones. Transition zone waters of group four (Ca-HCO3-SO4) flow through the valley of Monterrey, whereas discharge waters of group 5 (Ca-SO4) were found toward the north and northeast of the MMA. Principal component analysis performed in groundwater data indicates four principal components (PCs). PC1 included major ions Si, Co, Se, and Zn, suggesting that these are derived by rock weathering. Other trace elements such as As, Mo, Mn, and U are coupled in PC2 because they show redox-sensitive properties. PC3 indicates that Pb and Cu could be the less mobile elements in groundwater. Although groundwater supplied to MMA showed a high-quality, high mineralized waters of group 5 have NO3 − concentrations higher than the maximum value proposed by international guidelines and SO4 2−, NO3 −, and total dissolved solid concentrations higher than the maximum levels allowed by the Mexican normative.

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Assessment of major ions and trace elements in groundwater supplied to the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, Mexico

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Comment on: “Microtexture and U–Pb geochronology of detrital zircon grains in the Chachalacas beach, Veracruz State, Gulf of Mexico” by Armstrong‐Altrin, J. S., Ramos‐Vázquez, M. A., Hermenegildo‐Ruiz, N. Y., and Madhavaraju, J. (2020). Geological Journal

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Hermenegildo-Ruiz, and Madhavaraju (2020) it is possible to track a wide-ranging record of the most important magmatic and tectonothermal events preserved along NE to SE of Mexico. These zircon-forming events include those responsible for the development of its Proterozoic basement, the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic magmatic arcs, as well as the Cenozoic arc and intraplate magmatism. The proposed sources for the studied zircon crystals are Oaxaquia, Maya Block, the Peregrina-Mochonian arc, the Tamatán Group of the Ciudad Victoria Block, the Nazas Arc, the Cretaceous Mexican Arc, the foreland basins of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the Eastern Alkaline Province, and the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.

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Zircon trace element fingerprint of changing tectonic regimes in Permian rhyolites from the Central European Lowlands

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Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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The late Carboniferous/early Permian post-collisional rhyolites (305–285 Ma) that formed in Central Europe have generally similar whole rock compositions to that of older Late-Variscan rhyolites (330–310 Ma). However, data compilation combining zircon age with the chemical composition of rhyolites from 20 units shows a trend of increasing zircon saturation temperature with decreasing age. This trend is particularly well identified in rhyolites from the Central European Lowlands (CEL)—consisting of the NE German and NW Polish Basin—and also correlates their location with the zircon saturation temperature increasing from SE to NW from 750°C to 850°C. We infer that these higher temperatures of zircon saturation reflect a contemporaneous change in the tectonic setting from collisional to divergent, reflecting the onset of the Central European continental rifting. This interpretation is further corroborated by the trace element compositions of the CEL zircons, which resembles zircon crystallized in a divergent setting. Interestingly, the zircon formed globally in this type of setting is chemically diverse, especially considering uranium concentration. For example, zircon from locations dominated by mafic magma fractionation, such as rhyolites from Iceland, have low U concentrations and low U/Yb ratios. On the other hand, zircon formed in rhyolites in rifted margins, like western North America, tends to have much higher U and U/Yb ratios. Such high concentrations are not observed in zircon from the CEL, suggesting that the mantle input could be higher and residence times within continental crust shorter than those for rhyolites from the Cenozoic western USA. This may, in turn, suggest that the region might have been affected by a hot spot, similar to that responsible for rhyolite formation of the Snake River Plain. Graphical abstract

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Altered volcanic ash layers of the Late Cretaceous San Felipe Formation, Sierra Madre Oriental (Northeastern Mexico): U Pb geochronology, provenance and tectonic setting

Cited by 13 publications

References 54 publications

Assessment of major ions and trace elements in groundwater supplied to the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, Mexico

Assessment of major ions and trace elements in groundwater supplied to the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León, Mexico

Comment on: “Microtexture and U–Pb geochronology of detrital zircon grains in the Chachalacas beach, Veracruz State, Gulf of Mexico” by Armstrong‐Altrin, J. S., Ramos‐Vázquez, M. A., Hermenegildo‐Ruiz, N. Y., and Madhavaraju, J. (2020). Geological Journal

Zircon trace element fingerprint of changing tectonic regimes in Permian rhyolites from the Central European Lowlands

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