Chapter 11 Subduction-Related Sedimentary Basins of the USA Cordillera

Ingersoll, Raymond V.

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“…The Great Valley Basin (as used herein) is bordered on the east by the Sierra Nevada Mountains and batholiths, on the south by the confluence of the San Andreas and Garlock fault zones, on the west by a number of fault zones that form the border between the Franciscan metamorphic complex and the Great Valley, and on the north by the Klamath Mountains. The boundary for this basin is derived from the basin outline shown in Cohee and others (1962), King and Beikman (1974), Frezon and Finn (1988), Ingersoll (2008), and the California Department of Conservation (2001).…”

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“…The Hornbrook-Ochoco basin is bordered on the west by the Klamath Mountains, on the north by the paleogeographic position of the continental shelf-slope transition into the Paleo-Pacific Ocean, on the east by the northern extent of the Sierra Nevada Mountains (as of Late Cretaceous times), and on the south by an arbitrary line dividing the Great Valley basin from the Hornbrook-Ochoco Basin in the Lassen Peak at the southern end of the Modoc Lava Plateau. The boundary for this basin is derived from the basin outline shown in Ingersoll (2008).…”

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Preliminary catalog of the sedimentary basins of the United States

Coleman¹,

Cahan²

2012

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One hundred forty-four sedimentary basins (or groups of basins) in the United States (both onshore and offshore) are identified, located, and briefly described as part of a Geographic Information System (GIS) data base in support of the Geologic Carbon Dioxide Sequestration National Assessment Project (Brennan and others, 2010). This catalog of basins is designed to provide a check list and basic geologic framework for compiling more detailed geologic and reservoir engineering data for this project and other future investigations.

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Preliminary catalog of the sedimentary basins of the United States

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Cahan²

2012

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“…[2] Conducting new mapping and petrotectonic studies in medial belts of the Klamath Mountains and the southern Sierran Foothills, and building on the contributions of many earlier workers, Ernst et al [2008] proposed a plate tectonic scenario that described important aspects of the mid-Paleozoic -Mesozoic crustal growth of northern California. Through Middle Jurassic time, largely oceanic terranes that formed seaward and ultimately were assembled in the Klamaths and the Sierran Foothills, consist chiefly of intensely imbricated mafic-ultramafic complexes and superjacent, fine-grained terrigenous strata derived from previously accreted continental margin belts [e.g., Burchfiel and Davis, 1981;Wright, 1982;Dickinson, 2008;Ingersoll, 2008]. Although commonly regarded as products of convergent plate tectonic processes, sutured ophiolite + chertargillite terranes apparently reflect $230 Myr of dominantly margin-parallel slip, involving minor stages of transtension and transpression [Saleeby, 1981[Saleeby, , 1982[Saleeby, , 1983Silberling et al, 1987;Irwin, 2003;Ernst et al, 2008].…”

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Guadalupe pluton–Mariposa Formation age relationships in the southern Sierran Foothills: Onset of Mesozoic subduction in northern California?

Ernst

Saleeby

Snow³

2009

J. Geophys. Res.

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[1] We report a new 153 ± 2 Ma SIMS U-Pb date for zircons from the hypabyssal Guadalupe pluton which crosscuts and contact metamorphoses upper crustal Mariposa slates in the southern Sierra. A $950 m thick section of dark metashales lies below sandstones from which clastic zircons were analyzed at 152 ± 2 Ma. Assuming a compacted depositional rate of $120 m/Myr, accumulation of Mariposa volcanogenic sediments, which overlie previously stranded Middle Jurassic and older ophiolite + chertargillite belts in the Sierran Foothills, began no later than $160 Ma. Correlative Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian strata of the Galice Formation occupy a similar position in the Klamath Mountains. We speculate that the Late Jurassic was a time of transition from (1) a mid-Paleozoic-Middle Jurassic interval of mainly but not exclusively strike-slip and episodic docking of oceanic terranes; (2) to transpressive plate underflow, producing calcalkaline igneous arc rocks ± outboard blueschists at $170-150 Ma, whose erosion promoted accumulation of the Mariposa-Galice overlap strata; (3) continued transpressive underflow attending $200 km left-lateral displacement of the Klamath salient relative to the Sierran arc at $150-140 Ma and development of the apparent polar wander path cusps for North and South America; and (4) then nearly orthogonal mid and Late Cretaceous convergence commencing at $125-120 Ma, during reversal in tangential motion of the Pacific plate. After $120 Ma, nearly head-on subduction involving minor dextral transpression gave rise to voluminous continent-building juvenile and recycled magmas of the Sierran arc, providing the erosional debris to the Great Valley fore arc and Franciscan trench.

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“…During the Permian-Triassic transition, the Sonoma orogeny led to the formation of the western USA basin, named the Sonoma Foreland Basin (SFB), located at a near-equatorial position on the western Pangea margin ( Fig. 1A; Burchfiel and Davis, 1975;Ingersoll, 2008;Dickinson, 2013). This sedimentary basin mainly extends from the modern states of Idaho and Wyoming to Utah and eastern Nevada.…”

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Early Triassic environmental dynamics and microbial development during the Smithian–Spathian transition (Lower Weber Canyon, Utah, USA)

Grosjean

Vennin

Olivier

et al. 2018

Sedimentary Geology

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International audienceThe Early Triassic biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction is well documented in the Smithian–Spathian Thaynes Group of the western USA basin. This sedimentary succession is commonly interpreted as recording harsh conditions of various shallow marine environments where microbial structures flourished. However, recent studies questioned the relevance of the classical view of long-lasting deleterious post-crisis conditions and suggested a rapid diversification of some marine ecosystems during the Early Triassic. Using field and microfacies analyses, we investigate a well-preserved Early Triassic marine sedimentary succes- sion in Lower Weber Canyon (Utah, USA). The identification of microbial structures and their depositional set- tings provide insights on factors controlling their morphologies and distribution. The Lower Weber Canyon sediments record the vertical evolution of depositional environments from a middle Smithian microbial and dolosiliciclastic peritidal system to a late Smithian-early Spathian bioclastic, muddy mid ramp. The microbial de- posits are interpreted as Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS) that developed either (1) in a subtidal mid ramp where microbial wrinkles and chips are associated with megaripples characterizing hydrody- namic conditions of lower flow regime, or (2) in protected areas of inter- to subtidal inner ramp where they formed laminae and domal structures. Integrated with other published data, our investigations highlight that the distribution of these microbial structures was influenced by the combined effects of bathymetry, hydrody- namic conditions, lithology of the substrat physico-chemical characteristics of the depositional environment and by the regional relative sea-level fluctuations. Thus, we suggest that local environmental factors and basin dynamics primarily controlled the modalities of microbial development and preservation during the Early Triassic in the western USA basin

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Chapter 11 Subduction-Related Sedimentary Basins of the USA Cordillera

Cited by 23 publications

References 192 publications

Preliminary catalog of the sedimentary basins of the United States

Preliminary catalog of the sedimentary basins of the United States

Guadalupe pluton–Mariposa Formation age relationships in the southern Sierran Foothills: Onset of Mesozoic subduction in northern California?

Early Triassic environmental dynamics and microbial development during the Smithian–Spathian transition (Lower Weber Canyon, Utah, USA)

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