Sediment provenance, sediment-dispersal systems, and major arc-magmatic events recorded in the Mexican foreland basin, North-Central and Northeastern Mexico

Juárez-Arriaga, Edgar; Lawton, Timothy F.; Ocampo-Díaz, Yam Zul Ernesto; Stöckli, Daniel F.; Solari, Luigi

doi:10.1080/00206814.2019.1581848

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“…As a result of an evident low volume of pre-Aptian Early Cretaceous magmatism, and possibly because of its distribution within the batholith, ca. 143-124 Ma zircon grains are uncommon in Cretaceous strata of the Cordilleran foreland basin in the United States (Laskowski et al, 2013), in contrast with grain age distributions in the foreland basin of northern Mexico (Juárez-Arriaga et al, 2019).…”

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“…Ongoing magmatism from ca. 145-124 Ma in the Mexican segment of the arc system, consisting of the Alisitos arc of the Guerrero terrane and the Santiago Peak arc in southern California and the northern Baja California Peninsula, is recorded in detrital zircon analyses of Upper Cretaceous sandstones of northern and central Mexico (Lawton et al, 2009;Juárez-Arriaga et al, 2019). Detritus in the Morita Formation of Sonora records time-equivalent magmatism of the Santiago Peak arc in southern California ( Fig.…”

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“…122-110 Ma, and abundant in the range ca. 105-88 Ma (Juárez-Arriaga et al, 2019). In the southwestern-most U.S. and along western Mexico, Early Cretaceous arc magmatism occurred in the Guerrero composite terrane, which collided diachronously with North America during a debated time interval, probably sometime in the Aptian-Cenomanian (Dickinson and Lawton, 2001a;Centeno-García et al, 2008;Martini et al, 2014).…”

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Subsidence history and sandstone provenance of the Bisbee basin of southwestern New Mexico, southern Arizona, and northern Sonora, Mexico, demonstrate basin evolution from an array of Late Jurassic−Early Cretaceous rift basins to a partitioned middle Cretaceous retroarc foreland basin. The foreland basin contained persistent depocenters that were inherited from the rift basin array and determined patterns of Albian−early Cenomanian sediment routing. Upper Jurassic and Valanginian−Aptian strata were deposited in three narrow extensional basins, termed the Altar-Cucurpe, Huachuca, and Bootheel basins. Initially rapid Late Jurassic subsidence in the basins slowed in the Early Cretaceous, then increased again from mid-Albian through middle Cenomanian time, marking an episode of foreland subsidence. Sandstone composition and detrital zircon provenance indicate different sediment sources in the three basins and demonstrate their continued persistence as depocenters during Albian foreland basin development. Late Jurassic basins received sediment from a nearby magmatic arc that migrated westward with time. Following a 10−15 m.y. depositional hiatus, an Early Cretaceous continental margin arc supplied sediment to the Altar-Cucurpe basin in Sonora as early as ca. 136 Ma, but local sedimentary and basement sources dominated the Huachuca basin of southern Arizona until catchment extension tapped the arc source at ca. 123 Ma. The Bootheel basin of southwestern New Mexico received sediment only from local basement and recycled sedimentary sources with no contemporary arc source evident. During renewed Albian−Cenomanian subsidence, the arc continued to supply volcanic-lithic sand to the Altar-Cucurpe basin, which by then was the foredeep of the foreland basin. Sandstone of the Bootheel basin is more quartzose than the Altar-Cucurpe basin, but uncommon sandstone beds contain neovolcanic lithic fragments and young zircon grains that were transported to the basin as airborne ash. Latest Albian−early Cenomanian U-Pb tuff ages, detrital zircon maximum depositional ages ranging from ca. 102 Ma to 98 Ma, and ammonite fossils all demonstrate equivalence of middle Cretaceous proximal foreland strata of the U.S.-Mexico border region with distal back-bulge strata of the Cordilleran foreland basin. Marine strata buried a former rift shoulder in southwestern New Mexico during late Albian to earliest Cenomanian time (ca. 105−100 Ma), prior to widespread transgression in central New Mexico (ca. 98 Ma). Lateral stratigraphic continuity across the former rift shoulder likely resulted from regional dynamic subsidence following late Albian collision of the Guerrero composite volcanic terrane with Mexico and emplacement of the Farallon slab beneath the U.S.−Mexico border region. Inferred dynamic subsidence in the foreland of southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico was likely augmented in Sonora by flexural subsidence adjacent to an incipient thrust load driven by collision of the Guerrero superterrane.

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“…Las direcciones de transporte de sedimentos obtenidas de los ejes de los pliegues sinsedimentarios indican que la dirección de transporte ocurrió hacia el NE80°, sugiriendo una paleopendiente hacia el SW80° (Figura 14e). El ES6 es consistente con edades reportadas para episodios tectonomagmáticos del cinturón orogénico que generaron depósitos dentro de la región del "forebulge" (Figura, 13;Martínez-Paco et al, 2011;Fitz-Díaz et al, 2012;Martínez-Paco, 2013;Martini et al, 2016;Velasco-Tapia et al, 2016;Juárez-Arriaga et al, 2017;Juárez-Arriaga et al, 2019), ocasionados por la subducción de la Placa de Farallón, posterior a los 85 Ma.…”

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“…Sin embargo, la mayoría de los estudios no detallan la evolución sedimentológica y de depósito de la unidad, la cual está controlada por el régimen tectónico en que se desarrolla el sistema de antepaís (e.g., Ocampo-Díaz et al, 2016a). En este contexto, el objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar sedimentológica e icnológicamente a la Formación Concepción del Oro, en el noreste del estado de Zacatecas, para entender el origen y la evolución de los sistemas clásticos del noreste de México relacionados con la evolución del Sistemas de Cuencas de Antepaís Mexicano (SCAM; Juárez-Arriaga y Lawton, 2014;Juárez-Arriaga et al, 2019) del Cretácico Tardío.…”

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Historia de depósito de la Formación Concepción del Oro, noreste de Zacatecas, México: Implicaciones tectonosedimentarias para el desarrollo del sistema de antepaís en el noreste de México durante el Cretácico Tardío

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Un análisis sedimentológico e icnológico realizado en los miembros Tierras Blancas y Rancho Viejo de la Formación Concepción del Oro (Turoniano-Campaniano temprano), en la región de Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, permite documentar las características sedimentológicas, la evolución sedimentaria y su relación con el cinturón orogénico. El Miembro Tierras Blancas (Turoniano-Conianciano temprano) está conformado por sucesiones de líneas de costa deltaicas (e.g., frentes deltaicos influenciados/dominados por ríos o por oleaje/tormentas), con ensambles icnofaunísticos correspondientes a las icnofacies de Skolithos y Cruziana e Índice de Bioturbación (IB) variable (IB 0 – 4), representados por trazas de organismos que se alimentan de material en suspensión y del sustrato, con trazas pequeñas a moderadas, controladas por las condiciones de salinidad, oxigenación, aporte de nutrientes y energía del ambiente sedimentario. El Miembro Rancho Viejo (Coniaciano tardío-Campaniano temprano) consiste de canales submarinos de tipo mixto, canal submarino de depósito, desborde de canal o canal abandonado, transición lóbulo-canal, lóbulo de depósito, y depósitos de complejos de transporte de masas (CTM) del tipo II, caracterizados por icnogéneros de las icnofacies de Cruziana en su expresión distal, Zoophycus y Nereites, con IB variable entre ausente y abundante (IB 0 – 5), caracterizado por trazas de organismos con tamaños moderados a grandes que se alimentan de material en suspensión, los cuales combinan las actividades de alimentación y generación de vivienda. Los vectores promedio de paleocorrientes en estructuras relacionadas con procesos de oleaje sugieren una línea de costa deltaica con una dirección casi SE 20°-NW 20°, mientras que las estructuras unidireccionales asociadas con el transporte de sedimentos indican que la progradación del sistema deltaico fue preferentemente hacia el NE20°, perpendicular al cinturón orogénico. Las direcciones documentadas en surcos de erosión y estructuras de arrastre de partículas en los sistemas profundos (Miembro Rancho Viejo) determinan una dirección preferente hacia el SE45° y SW30°, indicando que el transporte de los sedimentos fue perpendicular y axial al cinturón orogénico.

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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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Sediment provenance, sediment-dispersal systems, and major arc-magmatic events recorded in the Mexican foreland basin, North-Central and Northeastern Mexico

Cited by 31 publications

References 85 publications

Transition from Late Jurassic rifting to middle Cretaceous dynamic foreland, southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico

Transition from Late Jurassic rifting to middle Cretaceous dynamic foreland, southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico

Historia de depósito de la Formación Concepción del Oro, noreste de Zacatecas, México: Implicaciones tectonosedimentarias para el desarrollo del sistema de antepaís en el noreste de México durante el Cretácico Tardío

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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