Stratigraphy, geochronology and regional tectonic setting of the Late Cretaceous (ca. 82-70 Ma) Cabullona basin, Sonora, Mexico

González–León, Carlos M.; Solari, Luigi; Madhavaraju, Jayagopal

doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2017.09.037

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“…Most workers consider that deformation and metamorphism of El Batamote belt occurred during northeast-southwest-directed compression associated with the Late Cretaceous to Paleogene Laramide orogeny (Damon et al, 1962;Hayama et al, 1984;Jacques-Ayala et al, 1990, 2009Jacques-Ayala and DeJong, 1996;García y Barragán et al, 1998;Nourse, 2001;Nourse et al, 2007). The structural style resembles that observed in areas of Laramide tectonism throughout northern Sonora, southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico (Haxel et al, 1984(Haxel et al, , 2008Nourse, 1995;González-León et al, 2000, 2017Clinkscales and Lawton, 2015). The timing of the event in El Batamote belt is only loosely constrained.…”

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“…Grains younger than 285 Ma comprise 72% of the total for the metasandstone and conglomerate matrix samples and are inferred to be derived from Cordilleran magmatic arcs (cf. Dickinson and Gehrels, 2009b;González-León et al, 2009, 2017Mauel et al, 2011;Peryam et al, 2012;Lawton and Molina Garza, 2014):…”

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“…(1) The latest Cretaceous zircon could have been derived from multiple sources in Sonora, including ranges near Cerros La Batellera (McDowell et al, 2001;Iriondo et al, 2005;Jacques-Ayala et al, 2009;Roldán-Quintana et al, 2009;González-León et al, 2011, 2017Ortega-Gutiérrez et al, 2014).…”

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Protolith age of the Altar and Carnero complexes and latest Cretaceous–Miocene deformation in the Caborca–Altar region of northwestern Sonora, Mexico

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Jacques-Ayala²,

Barth³

et al. 2019

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Protolith age of the Altar and Carnero complexes and latest Cretaceous–Miocene deformation in the Caborca–Altar region of northwestern Sonora, Mexico

Jacobson¹,

Jacques-Ayala²,

Barth³

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“…Laramide and older aspects of geologic history remain obscure because of these complex, superposed events. Isolated exposures of thrust faults, known or inferred to be Laramide in age, indicate dominant shortening in a southwest-northeast direction, with basement-cored uplifts similar to such structures in the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountains (e.g., Clinkscales & Lawton, 2018;Davis, 1979;Gehrels & Smith, 1991;González-León & Solari, 2017;Keith & Barrett, 1976;Krantz, 1989). Figure 1.…”

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Reconstruction of Mid‐Cenozoic Extension in the Rincon Mountains Area, Southeastern Arizona, USA, and Geodynamic Implications

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The Rincon Mountains metamorphic core complex, located east of Tucson, Arizona, consists of an arched footwall of foliated crystalline rocks bounded above by the generally outward dipping, Oligocene‐Miocene San Pedro extensional detachment fault. The southwest trending axes of corrugations in the detachment fault, and in footwall foliation and lithologic layering, parallel mylonitic lineation, and inferred top‐southwest displacement on the fault. An upper plate fault block within a synformal fault groove on the west side of the Rincon Mountains contains a thrust fault that is interpreted as displaced 34‐38 km westward from an original position adjacent to a similar thrust in the footwall of the San Pedro detachment fault. Much of the footwall of the detachment fault in the eastern Rincon Mountains consists of metasedimentary tectonites derived largely from Paleozoic carbonates that were buried beneath Proterozoic crystalline rocks forming the hanging wall of the Laramide Wildhorse Mountain thrust. These tectonites were later exhumed by displacement on the San Pedro detachment fault. Structural reconstruction supports the interpretation that the carbonate tectonites localized extensional faulting along the San Pedro detachment fault at crustal depths where carbonates would be weak and deform by crystal plasticity while quartzo‐feldspathic rocks would be strong and brittle. This weak zone is located adjacent to the greatest width of exposed extension‐parallel mylonitic fabrics in southeastern Arizona and may have been associated with the earliest initiation of extension in the region. Domains of low‐strength carbonates may be an underappreciated influence on extensional tectonics in cratonic southwestern North America.

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“…The U-Pb dating of single zircon grains have proven to be a useful tool for reconstructing the tectonic evolution of continental blocks (cf. Condie, Belousova, Griffin, & Sircombe, 2009;Gehrels, 2012;González-León, Solari, & Madhavaraju, 2017;Griffin, Belousova, Shee, Pearson, & O'Reilly, 2004;Kuznetsov, Natapov, Belousova, O'Reilly, & Griffin, 2010;Rino et al, 2008;Sevastjanova et al, 2011;Veevers & Saeed, 2008;Yao, Shu, & Santosh, 2011).…”

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Detrital zircon record of Mesozoic volcanic arcs in the Lower Cretaceous Mural Limestone, northwestern Mexico

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The northwestern part of Mexico, southern Arizona, and southern California witnessed extensive arc magmatism during Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous. Here, we present results from petrography, whole‐rock geochemistry (major and trace including rare‐earth elements), and detrital zircon geochronological studies that were carried out on sandstones and shales of the Mural Limestone exposed in the Rancho Bufalo area. Based on the petrography, sandstones are classified as sublitharenite, litharenite, feldspathic litharenite, and lithic arkose. The sandstones contain higher proportion of monocrystalline quartz than polycrystalline quartz. Sandstones and shales from the various members of the Mural Limestone show large variations in major and trace elements concentrations. The average concentrations of ΣREE (total ΣREE) are lower in sandstones than in shales. The chondrite‐normalized REE patterns of the sandstones and shales are moderately fractionated with light REE (LREE) enrichment relative to heavy REE (HREE) and with flat to slightly depleted HREE patterns. The chemical index of alteration values and A–CN–K relationships of sandstones indicate low to moderate intensity of weathering in the source region; however, shale samples suggesting the source rocks were subjected to moderate intensity of chemical weathering. The chondrite‐normalized REE patterns, Al2O3/TiO2 ratio, elemental ratios like Cr/V, Y/Ni, and Eu‐anomaly (Eu/Eu*), and bivariate plots suggest that the sandstones and shales were derived mainly from felsic source rocks. Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of sandstones from Fronteras, Rancho Bufalo, and Cerro La Ceja members of the Mural Limestone show five main groups of detrital zircon age populations: (a) Proterozoic, (b) Palaeozoic, (c) Triassic, (d) Jurassic, and (e) Early Cretaceous. Our study suggests that continental volcanic arcs in northwestern Mexico, southern Arizona, and southern California served as the provenance for the Late Triassic‐Jurassic detritus, whereas the Early Cretaceous zircon grains were derived mainly from the active Alisitos volcanic arc along the northwestern coast of Mexico.

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Stratigraphy, geochronology and regional tectonic setting of the Late Cretaceous (ca. 82-70 Ma) Cabullona basin, Sonora, Mexico

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

Protolith age of the Altar and Carnero complexes and latest Cretaceous–Miocene deformation in the Caborca–Altar region of northwestern Sonora, Mexico

Protolith age of the Altar and Carnero complexes and latest Cretaceous–Miocene deformation in the Caborca–Altar region of northwestern Sonora, Mexico

Reconstruction of Mid‐Cenozoic Extension in the Rincon Mountains Area, Southeastern Arizona, USA, and Geodynamic Implications

Detrital zircon record of Mesozoic volcanic arcs in the Lower Cretaceous Mural Limestone, northwestern Mexico

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