An oligocene (?) colorado plateau edge in arizona

Peirce, H.W.; Damon, Paul E.; Shafiqullah, M.

doi:10.1016/0040-1951(79)90289-0

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“…The basin possibly contained a lake with an area of 30,000 km 2 (Dallege et al, 2001 (Peirce et al, 1979). In addition, the Virgin River incised two canyons across fault-block mountains and allowed the river to maintain an antecedent path during at least the latter stage of extensional tectonism (Sites 1 and 2 in Fig.…”

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A criteria-based methodology for determining the mechanism of transverse drainage development, with application to the southwestern United States

Douglass

Meek

Dorn

et al. 2009

Geological Society of America Bulletin

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The study of how rivers cross obstructing mountains, once popular in the early twentieth century, has seen a dramatic resurgence in the last decade. Since Hutton's scholarly introduction to a possible cause for transverse drainage, however, no single study has compiled all of the various criteria that can be used to discriminate among the four possible mechanisms of antecedence, superimposition, overfl ow, and piracy. This paper presents the fi rst such compilation and related methodology to apply these criteria both in tabular and graphical formats, as well as an online interactive tool in the data repository. Combining nominal and ordinal data sources, this methodology generates an objective, reproducible assessment for the mechanism most likely to have established the transverse drainage at fi ve ordinal levels of confi dence. When applied to southwestern U.S. sites, randomly selected through an objective spatial procedure, four general observations emerged on the relationship between the development of transverse drainage and landscape evolution. (1) Streams persisting through lengthy periods of extension develop antecedent canyons. (2) In order to reestablish through-fl owing channels, streams overfl ow closed basins as active extension wanes.(3) Following a drop in base level related to the newly developed trunk channels, streams tributary to the trunk channels incise into basin-fi ll deposits-sometimes leading to the development of superimposed drainages.(4) Tributaries eroding headward, in response to the integration of two or more closed basins, can capture and redirect drainage; this permits transverse drainage through both piracy and superimposition upstream of the capture event. Because extant criteria use nominal and ordinal data almost entirely, considerable potential exists to refi ne this approach through future strategies that incorporate interval data. Future use of a criteria-based method has the potential to inform on prior geomorphic studies by providing a new perspective with which to study how basins evolve in active tectonic regions, the analysis of related basin sedimentation, the hydrological and biological aspects of drainage evolution, and transverse drainage found in Martian crater fi elds.

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A criteria-based methodology for determining the mechanism of transverse drainage development, with application to the southwestern United States

Douglass

Meek

Dorn

et al. 2009

Geological Society of America Bulletin

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“…In Arizona, prior to middle Tertiary extension, what are now the Sonoran Desert region and the transitional zone were higher than the Colorado Plateau and shed detritus northeastward onto the Colorado Plateau (Peirce et al, 1979;Spencer and Reynolds, 1989). This paleogeography, according to Peirce et al (1979), was disrupted by an Oligocene (?)…”

Section: Basin and Range-colorado Plateau Transition Zonementioning

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“…This paleogeography, according to Peirce et al (1979), was disrupted by an Oligocene (?) base-level change and subsequent erosion that outlined the ancestral Colorado Plateau margin.…”

Section: Basin and Range-colorado Plateau Transition Zonementioning

confidence: 99%

“…During about the past 13 m.y. in Arizona, faulting has produced the present fault-related topography of the transition zone (Peirce et al, 1979;Spencer and Reynolds, 1989). In northwestern Arizona, eruption of the 18.5 Ma Peach Spring Tuff (e.g., Nielson et al, 1990) accompanied or immediately preceded most basin and range block faulting because only minor faulting along the boundary between the Basin and Range province and the Colorado Plateau is evident prior to 18.5 Ma (Young and Brennan, 1974).…”

Section: Basin and Range-colorado Plateau Transition Zonementioning

confidence: 99%

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Regional characteristics, tilt domains, and extensional history of the later Cenozoic Basin and Range Province, western North America

Stewart¹

1998

Accommodation Zones and Transfer Zones; The Regional Segmentation of the Basin and Range Province

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The Basin and Range province covers a large region of western North America and contains diverse late Cenozoic extensional structures, including metamorphic core complexes, detachment faults, strike-slip faults, and basin and range fault blocks. The central region of the Basin and Range province, extending from the northern Rocky Mountains in the western United States to Sonora, Mexico, contains local or regional areas characterized by moderate-to large-magnitude extension overprinted by basin and range faults that have produced major elongate mountain horsts or tilted blocks and intervening valleys underlain by grabens, half grabens, or downtilted blocks. In southeast Oregon and most the Mexican part of the Basin and Range province east of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the province is only slightly or moderately extended, and structures consist mainly of basin and range blocks produced by widely spaced high-angle normal faults. Strike-slip faults are most common in the western part of the Basin and Range province in the Walker Lane belt of Nevada and California, the Eastern Mojave shear zone of the Mojave Desert region, and parts of the Gulf of California region.Tilt domains in which the dip of stratified rocks and the tilt of mountains blocks are consistently, or fairly consistently, in one direction are characteristic of the Basin and Range province. These domains are commonly 50-200 km or more across in a direction perpendicular to the strike of stratified rocks and the trend of elongate mountain ranges and as much as 1,000 km across parallel to this direction. Tiltdomain boundaries (accommodation zones) consist of either (1) anticlinal boundaries where the strike of stratified rock and the trend of structural fault blocks is parallel to, and the dips or tilts are away from, the boundary; (2) synclinal boundaries where the strike of stratified rock and the trend of structural fault blocks is parallel to, and the dips or tilts are toward, the boundary; or (3) transverse boundaries at a high angle to the strike of stratified rocks and structural fault blocks. These transverse boundaries (transverse accommodation zones) mark areas across which the strike direction of Tertiary rocks and of mountain ranges remains essentially the same, but the dip or tilt direction reverses. Tilt-domain boundaries (accommodation zones) may correspond to areas of abrupt change in dip directions at individual faults or folds, or may be broad areas of structural change that are several kilometers to 20 km across.

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“…The Mogollon Rim is part of an escarpment that diagonally bisects Arizona from the northwestern corner across to the eastern-central part of the state. This escarpment is ∼500 km in length, averages an elevation of 2100 m, and has a local relief of up to 600 m (Peirce et al, 1979). The relief of the Mogollon Rim induces a strong orographic effect, yielding some of the highest precipitation in the state with an annual average of over 900 mm (data averaged from 1961 and 1990) (NRCS, 2005).…”

Section: Physical Settingmentioning

confidence: 98%