Essai sur la reconstitution de l'evolution paleogeographique et structurale de la partie septentrionale du Mexique au cours du Mesozoique et du Cenozoique

Tardy, M.

doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.s7-xix.6.1297

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“…In this chapter, the Gulf of Mexico province trolled basin-specific styles of development in the western Pacific Mexico province, where facies development was strongly affected by adjacent arc-related tectonism and sediment supply. During the Mesozoic, the Pacific margin of Mexico was the site of a long-lived plutonic-volcanic arc complex, the Jurassic through Late Cretaceous Sinaloa arc, which was succeeded by the latest Cretaceous Alisitos arc (Tardy, 1977;Servais et al, 1982Servais et al, , 1986Araujo-Mendieta and Arenas-Partida, 1986;Tardy et al, 1986;Sedlock et al, 1993). The trench axis trended approximately north-northwest-south-southeast.…”

Section: Regional Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The trench axis trended approximately north-northwest-south-southeast. Johnson (1989), on the basis of ideas distilled from Tardy (1977), de Cserna (1979de Cserna ( , 1989, Limon (1989), Cordoba et al (1980), Dickinson (1981), Servais et al (1982Servais et al ( , 1986, and Araujo-Mendieta and Arenas-Partida (1986), summarized the tectonic development of the western Pacific Mexico province and its relationship to the Gulf of Mexico province (Fig. 4).…”

Section: Regional Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…12;Tardy, 1977;Servais et al, 1982Servais et al, , 1986Araujo-Mendieta and Arenas-Partida, 1986;Sedlock et al, 1993). West of the Aldama peninsula and Coahuila block, the Mexican geosyncline accumulated shallow-marine clastic and volcaniclastic sediments derived from the arc, whereas the Chihuahua trough was a restricted marine basin, perhaps in part evaporitic (Cordoba, 1969;Cordoba et al, 1970Cordoba et al, , 1980de Cserna, 1970de Cserna, , 1979de Cserna, , 1989Rangin and Cordoba, 1976;Gonzaléz-García, 1976;González, 1989;Tardy, 1977;Rangin, 1978Rangin, , 1979Gastil, 1983;Gastil et al, 1986;Dickinson, 1981;Tóvar Rodríguez, 1981;Roldan-Quintana, 1982;Servais et al, 1982Servais et al, , 1986Brown and Handschy, 1983;Cuévas-Pérez, 1983;Cuévas-Pérez et al, 1985;Marquez-Castaneda, 1984, in Moran-Zenteno, 1984Cantú-Chapa et al, 1985;Campa-Uranga, 1985;Araujo-Mendieta and Arenas-Partida, 1986;Moran-Zenteno, 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…14) in the western Pacific Mexico province, the tectonically active Sinaloa terrain was uplifted such that contractional deformation occurred to the east, thus closing the ancestral Mexican geosyncline west of the Aldama peninsula and south and west of the Coahuila block ( Fig. 4; Tardy, 1977;de Cserna, 1979de Cserna, , 1989Cordoba et al, 1980;Dickinson, 1981;Servais et al, 1982Servais et al, , 1986Araujo-Mendieta and Arenas-Partida, 1986). Earlier deposits of the Mexican geosyncline were deformed along a north-south zone termed the Zacatecas-Guanajuato thrust front by de Cserna (1979).…”

Section: Middle Oxfordian To Kimmeridgianmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Compare these relations with those of regional seismic line from south Texas. energy, lagoonal) and fine-grained clastic sediments in the trough center were flanked by coarser grained shallow-marine clastic sediments (Cordoba, 1969;Cordoba et al, 1970Cordoba et al, , 1980de Cserna, 1979;González, 1976;Tardy, 1977;Araujo-Mendieta and Arenas-Partida, 1986;Moran-Zenteno, 1994).…”

Section: Middle Oxfordian To Kimmeridgianmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mesozoic sequence stratigraphy and paleogeographic evolution of northeast Mexico

Goldhammer¹

1999

Special Paper 340: Mesozoic Sedimentary and Tectonic History of North-Central Mexico

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The Monterrey-Saltillo area of northeast Mexico is the juncture of two distinctly different Mexican tectono-stratigraphic provinces, the eastern Gulf of Mexico province and the western Pacific Mexico province, where Gulf of Mexico-driven versus Pacificdriven tectono-stratigraphic processes can be compared and contrasted. Each of these provinces are large subregions that have distinctive and separate tectonic evolutions, and different resulting stratigraphic packaging. They are characterized by distinctive structural belts and structural styles and basement. The different stratigraphies record a subregional response to the interaction of provincial tectonics (i.e., convergent versus divergent margins), eustatic changes in sea level, and sediment type and supply. The Monterrey-Saltillo area contains elements related to both Gulf of Mexico passive-margin development (principally the stratigraphy) and Pacific-related convergent margin (arc) tectonism (chiefly the structure). Thus a complete understanding of the area is critical in linking together two somewhat disparate geologic provinces in Mexico.In the Gulf of Mexico province, the tectonic evolution is dominated by passivemargin development associated with the opening of the Gulf of Mexico, overprinted by nonigneous Laramide orogenic effects. The stratigraphic evolution is dominated principally by eustasy in as far as thick regional accommodation cycles can be correlated throughout the Gulf of Mexico. I propose that the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of northeast Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico area in general can be subdivided into four major, second-order depositional supersequences (~15 m.y. duration), defined as large regionally correlative, retrogradational to aggradational-progradational accommodation packages. Each supersequence exhibits systematic vertical stacking patterns and associated lateral facies shifts within subordinate third-order sequences (1-3 m.y. duration) and component lateral-vertical facies and systems tracts. The four supersequences are supersequence 1-upper Bathonian to lower Kimmeridgian (158.5-144 Ma); supersequence 2-lower Kimmeridgian to Berriasian (144-128.5 Ma); supersequence 3-Valanginian to lower Aptian (128.5-112 Ma); supersequence 4-lower Aptian to upper Albian (112-98 Ma). (Note that these ages are not certain.) Second-order supersequence boundaries, condensed sections, transgressive surfaces, and second-order systems tracts have been identified in outcrops of the Sierra Madre Oriental, biostratigraphically dated, and correlated with the northern U.S. Gulf of Mexico stratigraphic section. The identification of these components is based on (1) gross shelf to basin relationships of onlapping and offlapping facies; (2) stacking Goldhammer, R. K., 1999, Mesozoic sequence stratigraphy and paleogeographic evolution of northeast Mexico, in Bartolini, C., Wilson, J. L., and Lawton, T. F., eds., Mesozoic Sedimentary and Tectonic History of North-Central Mexico: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Pa...

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Section: Regional Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Regional Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%