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Elements of a broad zone of northwesterly-trending lineaments, along the southwest margin of the North American craton, have been recurrently active since Middle Proterozoic time. Stratigraphic and structural data indicate the influence of this zone on Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Tertiary and Recent geology of northeastern Chihuahua. The Carrizo Mountain Group (estimated age 1,400-1,300 Ma) must have been deposited in a basin (northwesttrending graben?). Sparse examples of "older" granitic rocks (ca. 1,350-1,270 Ma) suggest widespread magmatism over a large area of Chihuahua, that is in part coeval with emplacement of granitic rocks to the north. The Carrizo Mountain Group depositional basin (graben?) may be the earliest manifestation of the dominant northwesterly-trending structural grain of the region; timing is consistent with oldest known strike-slip movement along the Texas Lineament zone (Stockton Pass, Arizona ca. 1,370±70 Ma). Following deposition of the Carrizo Mountain Group, inferred 1,260-1,160 Ma De Baca rifting affected areas to the north and northwest of the present Carrizo Mountain Group outcrop and subcrop. The rift probably extended into northern Chihuahua and metasedimentary rocks record a marine incursion; presumably from an ocean to the south. It is postulated that the De Baca/Swisher metasedimentary and basaltic rocks represent an intracontinental rift and that there is a genetic relationship between them and the Midcontinent rift. At about the same time as rifting, rocks of the Carrizo Mountain Group underwent their first metamorphism. At around 1,100 Ma, the region was subjected to "Grenville" diastrophism that includes extensive batholith emplacement, thrust faulting, retrograde metamorphism and synorogenic deposition of the Hazel Formation. Pre-Mississippian Paleozoic rocks of the region are the consequence of widespread cratonic shelf deposition along a relatively passive margin of the North American craton. Cambrian and Ordovician rocks include basal transgressive sandstones that reflect a general northeastern advance of seas onto North America. The major event during the early Paleozoic was a change in the boundary of the North American craton during Ordovician time. At about 450 Ma, the Cuyania terrane was separated from the craton and eventually was attached to South America. Local Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian faulting in Texas and New Mexico and disconformities on the Diablo Platform and in central New Mexico indicate periods of shelf exposure. These features may reflect tectonism over large areas, including northern Chihuahua, but their origin and significance is not clear. Four late Paleozoic tectonic pulses, affecting the Ouachita-Marathon system, are recognized in northeastern Chihuahua and adjacent parts of the United States: 1) Mississippian-Pennsylvanian deformation in Ouachita hinterland; 2) Pennsylvanian orogeny; 3) Pennsylvanian-Permian folding and thrusting; 4) Permian erosion/truncation and subsequent tilting
Elements of a broad zone of northwesterly-trending lineaments, along the southwest margin of the North American craton, have been recurrently active since Middle Proterozoic time. Stratigraphic and structural data indicate the influence of this zone on Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Tertiary and Recent geology of northeastern Chihuahua. The Carrizo Mountain Group (estimated age 1,400-1,300 Ma) must have been deposited in a basin (northwesttrending graben?). Sparse examples of "older" granitic rocks (ca. 1,350-1,270 Ma) suggest widespread magmatism over a large area of Chihuahua, that is in part coeval with emplacement of granitic rocks to the north. The Carrizo Mountain Group depositional basin (graben?) may be the earliest manifestation of the dominant northwesterly-trending structural grain of the region; timing is consistent with oldest known strike-slip movement along the Texas Lineament zone (Stockton Pass, Arizona ca. 1,370±70 Ma). Following deposition of the Carrizo Mountain Group, inferred 1,260-1,160 Ma De Baca rifting affected areas to the north and northwest of the present Carrizo Mountain Group outcrop and subcrop. The rift probably extended into northern Chihuahua and metasedimentary rocks record a marine incursion; presumably from an ocean to the south. It is postulated that the De Baca/Swisher metasedimentary and basaltic rocks represent an intracontinental rift and that there is a genetic relationship between them and the Midcontinent rift. At about the same time as rifting, rocks of the Carrizo Mountain Group underwent their first metamorphism. At around 1,100 Ma, the region was subjected to "Grenville" diastrophism that includes extensive batholith emplacement, thrust faulting, retrograde metamorphism and synorogenic deposition of the Hazel Formation. Pre-Mississippian Paleozoic rocks of the region are the consequence of widespread cratonic shelf deposition along a relatively passive margin of the North American craton. Cambrian and Ordovician rocks include basal transgressive sandstones that reflect a general northeastern advance of seas onto North America. The major event during the early Paleozoic was a change in the boundary of the North American craton during Ordovician time. At about 450 Ma, the Cuyania terrane was separated from the craton and eventually was attached to South America. Local Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian faulting in Texas and New Mexico and disconformities on the Diablo Platform and in central New Mexico indicate periods of shelf exposure. These features may reflect tectonism over large areas, including northern Chihuahua, but their origin and significance is not clear. Four late Paleozoic tectonic pulses, affecting the Ouachita-Marathon system, are recognized in northeastern Chihuahua and adjacent parts of the United States: 1) Mississippian-Pennsylvanian deformation in Ouachita hinterland; 2) Pennsylvanian orogeny; 3) Pennsylvanian-Permian folding and thrusting; 4) Permian erosion/truncation and subsequent tilting
La localización en México del margen sur de Laurencia durante el Paleozoico ha sido centro de intenso debate. Dichalocalización es necesaria para el análisis de la hipótesis actual consistente en que fragmentos de Norte América fueron transportadoshacia Sud América durante la ruptura de Laurencia (Cámbrico Temprano) y de Pangea (Mesozóico Temprano), mientras queenormes movimientos laterales en el norte de México en el Mesozoico ocasionaban el desplazamiento de la faja orogénica Ouachita.Tomando en cuenta afloramientos Paleozoicos, datos de isótopos de plomo y datos de sismicidad y gravimetría regionales, la fajaorogénica Ouachita continúa ya sea en dirección sur hacia Coahuila o en dirección sud-sudoeste a partir de la región texana de BigBend, atravesando Chihuahua y hacia Durango. Con el objeto de evaluar estas dos alternativas, se construyeron modelos de lacorteza terrestre a lo largo de tres perfiles en la parte norte de México y oeste de Texas. El número de datos en capas profundas fueinsuficiente para limitar el modelo, por lo que se resolvió obtener un modelo para cada una de las dos direcciones consideradaspara el seguimiento de la faja orogénica Ouachita. El modelo correspondiente al seguimiento sur sugiere la presencia de dos zonasde valores mínimos de gravimetría, las cuales se encuentran delineando una cuenca de antepaís paleozoica (Mapimí) a lo largo dela frontera entre Chihuahua y Coahuila, y un terreno acretado (terreno Coahuila) en la parte oeste de Coahuila. El modelo sudsudoestesugiere a su vez que las zonas de valores mínimos de gravimetría se encuentran delineando terrenos acretados. Nosotrosnos inclinamos por el seguimiento sud-sudoeste ya que podemos seguir el rastro de valores máximos de gravimetría asociados conla zona interior Ouachita hasta 300 km al interior de la parte este de Chihuahua y sur hacia Durango en una manera consistente conrespecto a datos de isótopos de plomo, muestras de rocas previas al Mesozoico provenientes de pozos y afloramientos en el área,así como litologías y estructuras en la parte oeste de Sonora. Una vez completando el lapso existente entre la faja orogénica deOuachita postulada aquí con litologías en Sonora, las cuales muestran una tendencia de seguimiento hacia el noreste, nos resultauna imagen del posible margen sur de Laurencia durante el Paleozoico Temprano.
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