Sobre la Presencia de Elementos de Origen Volcánico en las Areniscas de los Flyschs de Edad Cretácica Superior de los Estados de Coahuila y Zacatecas

Tardy, M.; Maury, R.

doi:10.18268/bsgm1973v34n1a1

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“…The volcanic province consisted of accreted oceanic and indigenous continental arc terranes dating back to the Early Jurassic (Grajales-Nishimura et al, 1992;Dickinson and Lawton, 2001;Wetmore et al, 2003;Centeno-García et al, 2008). The arc rocks of western Mexico have long been postulated as the primary source for volcanic detritus entering the foreland from the west (Tardy and Maury, 1973;McBride et al, 1975).…”

Section: Geologic Settingmentioning

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“…Sedimentary lithic grains, particularly extrabasinal carbonate grains and chert, and some rounded monocrystalline quartz grains, were likely derived from strata of the adjacent fold belt (Couch, 2005) and perhaps more distant parts of the Sierra Madre orogen to the west and northwest. Volcanic lithic grains and plagioclase were probably derived from arc terranes to the west (Tardy and Maury, 1973;Weidie and Murray, 1967;Hon, 2001;Weislogel, 2001;Soegaard et al, 2003). Less common metamorphic lithic grains and potassium feldspar, particularly microcline and perthite, are indicators of basement sources that are more diffi cult to pin down.…”

Section: Compositional Source Terranesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Provenance of Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene sandstones in the foreland basin system of the Sierra Madre Oriental, northeastern Mexico, and its bearing on fluvial dispersal systems of the Mexican Laramide Province

Lawton

Bradford

Vega

et al. 2009

Geological Society of America Bulletin

102

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Sandstone petrography and detrital zircon U-Pb analysis of Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene sandstones in the foreland basin of the Sierra Madre Oriental in northeastern Mexico indicate long-distance sediment transport from arc, basement, and thrust-belt sources lying to the west, northwest, and south. The basin fi ll, termed the Difunta Group, consists of sublitharenites, litharenites, feldspathic litharenites, and lithic arkoses derived from mixed sources that included sedimentary rocks, magmatic arc rocks, and subordinate basement rocks. Six age populations comprise the detrital zircon content of the sandstones: Proterozoic (1900-900 Ma), early Paleozoic (500-400 Ma), late Paleozoic-Early Triassic (288-235 Ma), Jurassic (180-151 Ma), Early Cretaceous (150-111 Ma), and Late Cretaceous-Paleogene (110-54 Ma). These grains were derived from several arc terranes, ranging in age from Permian to Paleogene, in western Mexico and the southwestern United States, from sedimentary rocks and possibly interbedded tuffs of the Sierra Madre Oriental orogen and from basement sources or their derivative sandstones of the southwestern United States. The petrographic and geochronologic provenance data corroborate existing models for derivation of much foreland detritus from arc sources to the west, identify the Sierra Madre orogen itself as an important source for sediment, and these data modify the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene paleogeography of Mexico to include a long, orogen-parallel fl uvial system with headwaters in the southwestern United States. The difference in average ages of the youngest grains in the sandstones and their inferred depositional ages is 10.5 m.y., indicating that the initial coarse fi ll of the foreland basin was derived from early Laramide uplift and eastward arc migration in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

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Provenance of Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene sandstones in the foreland basin system of the Sierra Madre Oriental, northeastern Mexico, and its bearing on fluvial dispersal systems of the Mexican Laramide Province

Lawton

Bradford

Vega

et al. 2009

Geological Society of America Bulletin

102

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“…35) (Cantú-Chapa and others, 1985;Dickinson and others, 1986;Araujo-Mendieta and Estavillo-González, 1987;Salvador, 1987;Scott and González-León, 1991). The oldest volcanogenic debris observed in these strata is Early Cretaceous in the Seri and North America terranes in Sonora Jacques-Ayala, 1989), Turonian in the Tepehuano terrane (Tardy and Maury, 1973), and Campanian-Maastrichtian in the Parras basin of the Coahuiltecano terrane (McBride and others, 1974). Late Cretaceous flysch in the Yuma terrane and Chatino terrane probably accumulated in intraarc depositional settings.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…19), with a marked increase in the abundance of clastic rocks in the late Cenomanian (Tardy and Maury, 1973;de Cserna, 1976;Cuevas-Pérez, 1983;Mitre-Salazar and others, 1991). Cretaceous platform limestone and shale crop out in the western part of the terrane (Chiodi and others, 1988).…”

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“…Cenomanian-Maastrichtian flysch in the Parras basin was derived, at least in part, from a calc-alkalic volcanic arc to the west (Tardy and Maury, 1973 (Fig. 7), a possible splay or strand of the megashear, produced syntectonic Jurassic and Neocomian conglomerate that contains clasts of Paleozoic schist and Paleozoic-Triassic granite and granitic gneiss (Table 3) (McKee and others, 1990).…”

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Tectonostratigraphic Terranes and Tectonic Evolution of Mexico

Sedlock¹,

Ortega-Gutiérrez²,

Speed³

1993

Geological Society of America Special Papers

228

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Part 1 of this work (Sedlock, Ortega-Gutiérrez, and Speed) is a synthesis of geoscientific data pertaining to México and northern Central America using the framework of a new division of these regions into tectonostratigraphic terranes. First, we review the morphotectonic provinces and the modern plate tectonic framework of the region. Next, we present data for 17 terranes that, except for North America, are named after indigenous cultures. Terrane descriptions are based on published and unpublished geophysical and geologic data of all types, utilizing a much more extensive data base than that used in previous terrane divisions. Each terrane description includes, if possible, an interpretive geologic and tectonic history focusing on distinctive features; a description of constituent rock units, with extended descriptions of especially significant or controversial units; a schematic tectonostratigraphic column, which in many cases shows geographic variation in the form of a structure section; and a compilation of radiometric data, including dates, system used, errors, and sources. Finally, we discuss the rationale for distinguishing individual terranes and summarize data concerning the orientation, nature, and kinematic history of terrane boundaries. An extended reference list is included.Part 2 of this work (Sedlock, Speed, and Ortega-Gutiérrez) is a speculative model of the Late Precambrian to Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the terranes that comprise México and northern Central America. First, we discuss numerous formal premises on which the model is predicated, including Late Jurassic sinistral slip on the Mojave-Sonora Megashear and Late Cretaceous-Paleogene northward displacement of Baja California. Next, we review constraints imposed by plate motion models on the tectonic evolution of the region. Finally, we present a reconstruction of the tectonic evolution of the region that, while certainly not a unique solution, is an internally consistent solution that is testable in many respects.The following are a few of the salient features of the reconstruction. (1) Grenville basement in eastern and southern México is regarded to be far-traveled with respect to the southern termination of the Grenville belt in North America. (2) The late Paleozoic Ouachitan suture that marks the collision of North America and Gondwana does not and did not extend into central México. (3) The Permo-Triassic continental arc on the western margin of Pangea affected only the far eastern edge and far northwestern corner of México; most of what is now México was a complex assemblage of arcs, continental blocks, and basins in the oceanic region west and south of the Pangean continental arc. (4) Continental México grew most markedly toward its present form during the Late Triassic and Jurassic as terranes were episodically accreted to its southern and western flanks. (5) Mesozoic southward and westward continental growth was accompanied by a southward and westward shift of the locus of arc magmatism. (6) The technically active southern and ...

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Late Cretaceous-Paleocene stratigraphic and structural evolution of the central Mexican fold and thrust belt, from detrital zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) ages

Juárez-Arriaga

Lawton

Stöckli

et al. 2019

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

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Sobre la Presencia de Elementos de Origen Volcánico en las Areniscas de los Flyschs de Edad Cretácica Superior de los Estados de Coahuila y Zacatecas

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Provenance of Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene sandstones in the foreland basin system of the Sierra Madre Oriental, northeastern Mexico, and its bearing on fluvial dispersal systems of the Mexican Laramide Province

Provenance of Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene sandstones in the foreland basin system of the Sierra Madre Oriental, northeastern Mexico, and its bearing on fluvial dispersal systems of the Mexican Laramide Province

Tectonostratigraphic Terranes and Tectonic Evolution of Mexico

Late Cretaceous-Paleocene stratigraphic and structural evolution of the central Mexican fold and thrust belt, from detrital zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) ages

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