Stratigraphy and structure of the Schoonover sequence, northeastern Nevada: Implications for Paleozoic plate-margin tectonics

Miller, Elizabeth L.; Holdsworth, B. K.; Whiteford, W. B.; Rodgers, David W.

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1984)95<1063:sasots>2.0.co;2

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“…Outboard of Antler orogen, the Golconda allochthon (Fig. 2) also contains sandstones that were apparently derived from the Roberts Mountains allochthon (Schweickert and Snyder, 1981;Dickinson et al, 1983;Miller et al, 1984Miller et al, , 1992Harwood and Murchey, 1990). As shown in Figure 7, detrital zircon ages from Golconda strata (Riley et al, this volume, Chapter 4) are very similar to the ages from strata in the Roberts Mountains allochthon and from strata in the Antler overlap assemblage (provenance link 10).…”

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“…Only one long-lived magmatic arc is involved in this model. This noncollisional view was first proposed by Burchfiel and Davis (1972) and has been favored in many subsequent tectonic syntheses (e.g., Churkin, 1974;Burchfiel and Davis, 1975;Miller et al, 1984Miller et al, , 1992Miller, 1987;Harwood and Murchey, 1990;Burchfiel et al, 1992).…”

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“…strata of the northern Sierra and Yreka terranes. Feldspathic sands (e.g., most of the Harmony Formation [Roberts Mountains allochthon] and part of the Shoo Fly Complex [northern Sierra terrane] and Antelope Davis, 1972, 1975;Churkin, 1974;Miller et al, 1984Miller et al, , 1992Harwood and Murchey, 1990;Burchfiel et al, 1992). B, Collision of exotic arc during Antler orogeny followed by mainly west facing convergent margin (Schweickert and Snyder, 1981).…”

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“…2). The Golconda allochthon consists of an ocean-basin assemblage of chert, argillite, basalt, sandstone, and limestone (Miller et al, 1984(Miller et al, , 1992. The Black Rock terrane consists of a mixture of siliciclastic, carbonate, and volcanogenic rocks similar to those in the Sierra-Klamath terranes, but with less abundant volcanic strata (Wyld, 1990).…”

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“…Numbers in boxes refer to provenance links listed in Table 1. Dickinson et al (1983), Miller et al (1984, 1992, and Harwood and Murchey (1990), strata in the Golconda allochthon likely were deposited immediately west of, and received detritus primarily from, the Antler orogen. During Permian time, strata in the Golconda allochthon also incorporated detritus derived originally from basement rocks of the southwestern United States (Riley et al,this volume,Chapter 4;provenance link 11).…”

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Paleozoic and Triassic Paleogeography and Tectonics of Western Nevada and Northern California

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U-Pb analyses of detrital zircons from various allochthonous assemblages of Paleozoic and early Mesozoic age in western Nevada and northern California yield new constraints on the sediment dispersal patterns and tectonic evolution of western North America. During early Paleozoic time, a large submarine fan system formed in slope, rise, basinal, and perhaps trench settings near the continental margin, west of continental shelf deposits of the Cordilleran miogeocline. Our detrital zircon data suggest that most of the detritus in this fan system along the western U.S

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Tectonic Analysis of the Pennsylvanian Ely‐Bird Spring Basin: Late Paleozoic Tectonism on the Southwestern Laurentia Margin and the Distal Limit of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains

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During Pennsylvanian to Early Permian time, much of southwestern Laurentia experienced broad deformation far from the nearest plate boundaries. The bulk of this deformation is known as the Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny, which consists of several basement uplifts and proximal basins north and northwest of the Ouachita‐Marathon suture. The Ely‐Bird Spring basin formed during this time, located between the classic Ancestral Rocky Mountains and the complex and poorly constrained western Laurentian margin. In this study, we used tectonic subsidence curve analyses to evaluate the tectonic style of basin subsidence in this basin and several northern Ancestral Rocky Mountains basins. The Ely‐Bird Spring and Wood River basins have convex upward and stair‐stepped tectonic subsidence curves similar to curves from migrating foreland basins. These curves, combined with sedimentological and structural data, are consistent with these basins forming due to loading from the west and northwest as part of the complex western Laurentian plate boundary, not due to classic Ancestral Rocky Mountains tectonics. The other northern Ancestral Rocky Mountains basins have much steeper and more linear subsidence curves, similar to foreland basins with fixed loads. However, the Oquirrh basin, in particular, displays a large amount of subsidence far from hypothesized tectonic drivers of deformation. A combination of transmitted stress from both the western Laurentia margin and traditional Ancestral Rocky Mountains tectonism explains the anomalously large subsidence in the Oquirrh basin. Therefore, transmitted stresses from more than one side of western and southern Laurentia are required to explain the observed pattern of deformation.

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Stratigraphy and structure of the Schoonover sequence, northeastern Nevada: Implications for Paleozoic plate-margin tectonics

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Tectonic implications of detrital zircon data from Paleozoic and Triassic strata in western Nevada and Northern California

Tectonic implications of detrital zircon data from Paleozoic and Triassic strata in western Nevada and Northern California

Tectonic Analysis of the Pennsylvanian Ely‐Bird Spring Basin: Late Paleozoic Tectonism on the Southwestern Laurentia Margin and the Distal Limit of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains

The Interplay of Accretionary and Attritionary Tectonics along the California Margin

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