Nd-Sr isotopic, geochemical, and petrographic stratigraphy and paleotectonic analysis: Mesozoic Great Valley forearc sedimentary rocks of California

Linn, Annē; DePaolo, Donald J.; Ingersoll, Raymond V.

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1992)104<1264:nsigap>2.3.co;2

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“…The San Joaquin sandstone and mudrock provenance results are consistent with previous studies (e.g., Linn et al, 1992) and also indicate that more mafic, volcanic sources in Lower Cretaceous samples transitioned to more felsic plutonic, metamorphic, and continental crustal sources in Upper Cretaceous samples. Moreover, Surpless (2014) reported that Lower Cretaceous San Joaquin samples include abundant Precambrian detrital-zircon grains (25%), and their Mesozoic age spectra have a single, dominant zircon age peak at 162 Ma.…”

Section: Provenance Trends Of Great Valley Group (Gvg) Depositssupporting

confidence: 90%

“…These studies confirm earlier interpretations that the southern Sierra Nevada source area shifted eastward and was uplifted, deeply eroded, and unroofed throughout Cretaceous time (Sams and Saleeby, 1988;Linn et al, 1992;House et al, 1998;DeGraaff-Surpless et al, 2002).…”

Section: Provenance Trends Of Great Valley Group (Gvg) Depositssupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Many studies point to the Sierran arc as the dominant source for GVG deposits in the San Joaquin subbasin (Ingersoll, 1983;Linn et al, 1992;DeGraaffSurpless et al, 2002;Surpless, 2014). However, the changes associated with the ca.…”

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Facies architecture and provenance of a boulder-conglomerate submarine channel system, Panoche Formation, Great Valley Group: A forearc basin response to middle Cretaceous tectonism in the California convergent margin

Greene¹,

Surpless²

2017

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Tectonic reorganization induced by a rapid increase in plate motion obliquity and rate beginning at ca. 100 Ma affected California's Andean-style convergent margin, with concomitant changes in the accretionary prism of the Franciscan Complex, the Great Valley forearc basin, and the Sierran continental arc. Using facies analysis and a combined provenance approach, we suggest that this ca. 100 Ma tectonic signal is preserved in a Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) boulder-conglomerate outcrop along the San Luis Reservoir (SLR) in the southern Great Valley, which represents the thickest and coarsest deep-water deposit ever described in the Great Valley Group (GVG). We document a 1.8-km-thick by 4-km-long depositional-dip profile of an interpreted SE-directed (axial) submarine channel system that is part of a conglomeratic package that stretches 20 km along the east-central Diablo Range. Our facies analysis of the SLR area documents five facies associations within four aggradational channel complex sets, followed by regional abandonment.Sandstone petrography and mudrock geochemical data suggest a dissected continental Sierra Nevadan arc source. Conglomerate clast counts show abundant ophiolitic-type clasts that may be derived from the Coast Range Ophiolite and/or the Western Sierra Nevada Metamorphic Belt. Detrital-zircon geochronology data also indicate western and central Sierra Nevadan sources; however, we interpret an anomalous (relative to other Cenomanian localities) 105-95 Ma zircon population to indicate the initial erosional products from the volcanic carapace associated with the Late Cretaceous magmatic flare-up within the eastern Sierran arc. This flare-up has been linked to an increase in arc-parallel plate motion that induced deformation along shear zones in the eastern Sierra Nevada, allowing for widespread plutonism. Our provenance interpretation makes the SLR area the earliest Upper Cretaceous GVG locality to receive significant detritus from the flare-up, effectively linking tectonic plate motion changes and coarse-grained, deep-water forearc sedimentation.

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Facies architecture and provenance of a boulder-conglomerate submarine channel system, Panoche Formation, Great Valley Group: A forearc basin response to middle Cretaceous tectonism in the California convergent margin

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2017

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“…Typical volcanogenic sandstones are mixtures of mineral grains and volcanic and sub-volcanic rock fragments (Ingersoll, 1983;Linn et al, 1992). To simulate the reactive behavior of volcanic rock fragments we have used a combination of minerals, mainly pyroxenes and feldspar, for which laboratory dissolution rate data are available.…”

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Mineralization of carbon dioxide sequestered in volcanogenic sandstone reservoir rocks

Zhang

DePaolo

et al. 2013

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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“…The Sierra Nevada magmatic system is isotopically and structurally linked to the North American craton (Kistler and Peterman, 1973;Saleeby et al, 1987Saleeby et al, , 1989Linn et al, 1992). The Sierran batholithic belt consists of autochthonous plutons that intruded the North American margin in Jurassic and Cretaceous time (e.g., Evernden and Kistler, 1970;Stern et al, 1981;Bateman, 1983;Saleeby et al, 1989).…”

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Lithofacies control in detrital zircon provenance studies: Insights from the Cretaceous Methow basin, southern Canadian Cordillera

Surpless

Mahoney

Wooden

et al. 2003

Geological Society of America Bulletin

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High-frequency sampling for detrital zircon analysis can provide a detailed record of fine-scale basin evolution by revealing the temporal and spatial variability of detrital zircon ages within clastic sedimentary successions. This investigation employed detailed sampling of two sedimentary successions in the Methow/Methow-Tyaughton basin of the southern Canadian Cordillera to characterize the heterogeneity of detrital zircon signatures within single lithofacies and assess the applicability of detrital zircon analysis in distinguishing fine-scale provenance changes not apparent in lithologic analysis of the strata. The Methow/ Methow-Tyaughton basin contains two distinct stratigraphic sequences of middle Albian to Santonian clastic sedimentary rocks: submarine-fan deposits of the Harts Pass Formation/Jackass Mountain Group and fluvial deposits of the Winthrop Formation. Although both stratigraphic sequences displayed consistent ranges in detrital zircon ages on a broad scale, detailed sampling within each succession revealed heterogeneity in the detrital zircon age distributions that was systematic and predictable in the turbidite succession but unpredictable in the fluvial succession. These results suggest that a high-density sampling approach permits interpretation of finescale changes within a lithologically uniform turbiditic sedimentary succession, but † E-mail: ksurpless@stanford.edu. heterogeneity within fluvial systems may be too large and unpredictable to permit accurate fine-scale characterization of the evolution of source regions. The robust composite detrital zircon age signature developed for these two successions permits comparison of the Methow/MethowTyaughton basin age signature with known plutonic source-rock ages from major plutonic belts throughout the Cretaceous North American margin. The Methow/ Methow-Tyaughton basin detrital zircon age signature matches best with source regions in the southern Canadian Cordillera, requiring that the basin developed in close proximity to the southern Canadian Cordillera and providing evidence against large-scale dextral translation of the Methow terrane.

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Nd-Sr isotopic, geochemical, and petrographic stratigraphy and paleotectonic analysis: Mesozoic Great Valley forearc sedimentary rocks of California

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Facies architecture and provenance of a boulder-conglomerate submarine channel system, Panoche Formation, Great Valley Group: A forearc basin response to middle Cretaceous tectonism in the California convergent margin

Facies architecture and provenance of a boulder-conglomerate submarine channel system, Panoche Formation, Great Valley Group: A forearc basin response to middle Cretaceous tectonism in the California convergent margin

Mineralization of carbon dioxide sequestered in volcanogenic sandstone reservoir rocks

Lithofacies control in detrital zircon provenance studies: Insights from the Cretaceous Methow basin, southern Canadian Cordillera

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