Geologic map and cross sections of the Silver City Range, Grant County, New Mexico

Copeland, Peter; Murphy, Michael A.; Dupré, W.R.

doi:10.58799/ofr-524

2010

DOI: 10.58799/ofr-524

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Geologic map and cross sections of the Silver City Range, Grant County, New Mexico

Peter Copeland¹,

Michael A. Murphy²,

W.R. Dupré³

Abstract: QTg Gila Conglomerate (Miocene-Pleistocene?): consists of semi-consolidated conglomerates, sandstones, and minor amounts of mudrocks. Estimated thickness up to 300 meters; deposited in part as syntectonic (Basin and Range) alluvial fan, river, and lacustrine deposits. Best developed on LS Mesa and in the bolson fill of the Mangas Valley. Includes some small areas of undifferentiated Holocene alluvial and colluvial deposits (Trauger, 1972).

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Oligocene shortening in the Little Burro Mountains of southwest New Mexico

Tomlinson

Copeland

Murphy

et al. 2013

Rocky Mountain Geology

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Laramide-style shortening structures in southwest New Mexico chiefly affect Cretaceous and older rocks, making the estimation of the cessation of shortening in the Paleogene problematic. The cessation of Laramide shortening is generally thought to be about 40 Ma in southwest New Mexico. However, in the Silver City Range, Grant County, New Mexico, shortening younger than 34.6 Ma was documented by Copeland et al. (2011).The Little Burro Mountains, 10-20 km south of the Silver City Range, contain a monocline trending northwestsoutheast with beds dipping ~12° in the backlimb and up to 30° in the forelimb. The youngest folded unit in the monocline is the tuff of Wind Mountain (Twt), which yielded a 206 Pb/ 238 U zircon age of 30.9 ± 0.5 Ma. Normal faults strike orthogonal to the axial trace of the fold with low displacement (10s of meters), which we interpret to have formed synchronous with the monocline to accommodate variations in shortening along strike. Field observations, trishear fault-propagationfold modeling, and the structural style and trends of the region are consistent with the development of the monocline related to a deeply rooted blind thrust or reverse fault. These results indicate that Laramide-style shortening in southwest New Mexico was active into the late Oligocene.

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Oligocene shortening in the Little Burro Mountains of southwest New Mexico

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Copeland

Murphy

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Rocky Mountain Geology

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Geologic map and cross sections of the Silver City Range, Grant County, New Mexico

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Oligocene shortening in the Little Burro Mountains of southwest New Mexico

Oligocene shortening in the Little Burro Mountains of southwest New Mexico

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