Ridge-trench interactions and the Neogene tectonic evolution of the Magdalena shelf and southern Gulf of California: Insights from detrital zircon U-Pb ages from the Magdalena fan and adjacent areas

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1313-1336

  Fletcher, John M ^a   Grove, Marty ^b   Kimbrough, David ^c   Lovera, Oscar ^b   Gehrels, George E ^d  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Baja California; Detrital zircon; Gulf of California; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program; Magdalena fan; Mexico; Neogene; U Pb

Indexed keywords

MANTLE; NEOGENE; RIDGE-TRENCH INTERACTIONS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; EROSION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENUDATION; FAULT; KINEMATICS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NEOGENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OCEAN BASIN; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEANIC CRUST; PACIFIC PLATE; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION; SUBMARINE FAN; SUBMARINE RIDGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSTENSION; TRENCH; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MAGDALENA BAY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 38149097690     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26067.1     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Aranda-Gómez, J.J., and Pérez-Venzor, J.A., 1989, Estratigrafía del complejo cristalino de la región de Todos Santos, Estado de Baja California Sur: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, Revista, v. 8, p. 149-170.
2. Atwater, T., 1970, Implications of plate tectonics for the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of western North America: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81, p. 3513-3536, doi: 10.1130/ 0016-7606(1970)81[3513:IOPTFT]2.0.CO;2.
3. Atwater, T., and Stock, J.M., 1998, Pacific-North America plate tectonics of the Neogene southwestern United States: An update: International Geology Reviews, v. 40, p. 375-402.
4. Blake, M.C.J., Jayko, A.S., and Moore, T.E., 1984, Tectonostratigraphic terranes of Magdalena Island, Baja California Sur, in Frizzell, V.A., Jr., ed., Geology of the Baja California Peninsula: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Paper 39, p. 183-191.
5. Bohannon, R.G., and Parsons, T., 1995, Tectonic implications of post-30 Ma Pacific and North American relative plate motions: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 937-959, doi: 10.1130/0016-7606 (1995)107<0937:TIOPMP>2.3.CO;2.
6. Bonini, J.A., and Baldwin, S.L., 1998, Mesozoic metamorphic and middle to late Tertiary magmatic events on Magdalena and Santa Margarita Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Baja California continental borderland: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1094-1104, doi: 10.1130/ 0016-7606(1998)110<1094:MMAMTL>2.3.CO;2.
7. Bukry, D., 1981, Pacific coast cocolith stratigraphy between Point Concepcion and Cabo Corrientes, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 63, in Yeats, R.S., et al., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Volume 63: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 445-472.
8. Carreño, A.L., 2000, Biostratigraphy and depositional history of the Tepetate Formation at Arroyo Colorado (early-middle Eocene), Baja California Sur, Mexico: Ciencias Marinas, v. 26, p. 177-200.
9. Chinas, L.R., 1963, Geologia. de la Isla Maria Madre [Ph D. thesis): Mexico, D.F., Institute Politecnico Nacional de Mexico.
10. Coleman, T.A., 1979, Nannoplankton biostratigraphy of the Tepetate formation, Baja California del Sur [M.S. thesis]: Los Angeles, University of Southern California, 61 p.
11. Curray, JR., Moore, D.G., Aguayo, J.E., Aubry M.R, Einsele, G., Fornari, D., Gieskes, J., Guerrero-Garcia, J., Kastner, M., Kelts, K., Lyle, M., Motaba, Y., Molina-Cruz, A., Niemitz, J., Rueda-Graxiola, J., Saunders, A., Schrader, H., Simoneit, B.R.T., and Vacquier, V., 1982, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 507 p.
12. Dickinson, W.R., Beard, L.S., Brakenridge, G.R.,Erjavec, J.L., Ferguson, R.C., Inman, K.F., Knepp, R.A., Lindberg, F.A., and Ryberg, P.T., 1983, Provenance of North American Phanerozoic sandstone in relation to tectonic setting: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 222-235, doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(1983)94<222:PONAPS>2.0.CO;2.
13. Dixon, T., Farina, F., DeMets, C., Suarez-Vidal, F., Fletcher, J., Marquez-Azua, B., Miller, M., Sanchez, O., and Umhoefer, P.J., 2000, New kinematic models for Pacific-North America motion from 3 Ma to present; II, Evidence for a "Baja California shear zone": Geophysical Research Letters, v. 27, p. 3961-3964, doi: 10.1029/2000GL008529.
14. Eakins, B.W., 2000, Interaction of the Pacific-North America-Rivera triple junction with the Pacific margin of Baja California Sur: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 7, p. 381-382.
15. Ferrari, L., 1995, Miocene shearing along the northern boundary of the Jalisco block and the opening of the southern Gulf of California: Geology, v. 23, p. 751-754, doi: 10.1130/ 0091-7613(1995)023<0751:MSATNB>2.3.CO;2.
16. Ferrari, L., Lopez Martinez, M., Aguirre Diaz, G., and Carrasco-Nuñez, G., 1999, Space-time patterns of Cenozoic arc volcanism in central Mexico: From the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Mexican volcanic belt: Geology, v. 27, p. 303-307, doi: 10.1130/ 0091-7613(1999)027<0303:STPOCA>2.3.CO;2.
17. Fletcher, J.M., and Munguía, L., 2000, Active continental rifting in southern Baja California, Mexico; implications for plate motion partitioning and the transition to seafloor spreading in the Gulf of California: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 1107-1123, doi: 10.1029/1999TC001131.
18. Fletcher, J.M., Eakins, B.A., Sedlock, R.L., Mendoza-Borunda, R., Walter, R.C., Edwards, R.L., and Dixon, T.H., 2000a, Quaternary and Neogene slip history of the Baja-Pacific plate margin: Bahia Magdalena and the southwestern borderland of Baja California: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 81, p. F1232.
19. Fletcher, J.M., Kohn, B.P., Foster, D.A., and Gleadow, A.J.W., 2000b, Heterogeneous cooling and exhumation of the Los Cabos block, southern Baja California: Evidence from fission-track thermochronology: Geology, v. 28, p. 107-110, doi: 10.1130 /0091-7613(2000)28<107:HNCAEO>2.0.CO;2.
20. Fletcher, J.M., Martin-Atienza, B., Axen, G.J., González-Fernández, A., Hollbrook, W.S., Kent, G., Lizarralde, D., Harding, A., and Umhoefer, P., 2003a, Palinspastic, reconstructions of the Gulf of California based on Airy isostatic profiles: Evidence for one kinematic phase of Neogene shearing: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, abs. T32D-06.
21. Fletcher, J.M., Pérez-Venzor, J.A., González-Barba, G., and Aranda-Gomez, J.J., 2003b, Ridge-trench interactions and the ongoing capture of the Baja California microplate - New insights from the southern Gulf extensional province, in Morán-Zenteno, D.J., ed., Geologic transects across the Cordilleran Mexico, Guidebook for field trips of the 99th Annual meeting of the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America, Volume Publicacion Especial 1: Mexico, D.F., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geologia, p. 13-31.
22. Fletcher, J.M., Martin-Atienza, B., Axen, G.J., Gonzalez, A., Hollbrook, W.S., Kent, G., Lizarralde, D., Harding, A., and Umhoefer, P., 2004, Relative magnitudes of seafloor spreading and continental rifting across the Gulf of California: An example of orogen-scale strain compatibility: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 317.
23. Fulwider, W.R., 1976, Biostratigraphy of the Tepetate Formation, Baja California Sur [M.S. thesis]: Los Angeles, University of Southern California, 111 p.
24. Gans, P.B., 1997, Large-magnitude Oligo-Miocene extension in southern Sonora: Implications for the tectonic evolution of northwest Mexico: Tectonics, v. 16, p. 388-408, doi: 10.1029/97TC00496.
25. Garcia-Cordero, E., and Carreño, A.L., 2005, Biostratigraphy of the Tepetate Formation based upon calcareous nanoplankton from the Las Positas water well, Baja California Sur, Mexico: VII International Meeting on the geology of the Baja California Peninsula, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico: Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico: Peninsular Geological Society, p. 47.
26. Gastil, R.G., 1975, Plutonic zones in the Peninsular Ranges of southern California and northern Baja California: Geology, v.3, p.361-363, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1975)3<361:PZITPR>2.0.CO;2.
27. Gehrels, G.E., DeCelles, PG., Ojha, T.P., and Upreti, B.N., 2006, Geologic and U-Th-Pb geochronologic evidence for early Paleozoic tectonism in the Kathmandu thrust sheet, central Nepal Himalaya: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 185-198, doi: 10.1130/ B25753.1.
28. González-Fernández, A., Fletcher, J.M., Lizarralde, D., Kent, G.M., Harding, A.J., Holbrook, WS., Umhoefer, P., Axen, G.J., and Gorman, A.R., 2003, Seismic images of faulting and fossil subduction of the southern Baja California margins: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, abs. F1404.
29. González-Garcia, J.J., Prawirodirdjo, L., Bock,Y., and Agnew, D., 2003, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, as a new constraint for Pacific plate motion: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 30, 1872, doi: 10.1029/ 2003GLO17732.
30. Hausback, B.P., 1984, Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic evolution of Baja California Sur, Mexico, in Frizzell, V.A., ed., Geology of the Baja Peninsula: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Paper 39, p. 219-236.
31. Heim, A., 1922, Notes from the Tertiary of lower California (Mexico): Geological Magazine, v. 59, p. 529-547.
32. Henry, C.D., McDowell, F.W., and Silver, L.T., 2003, Geology and geochronology of granitic batholith complex, Sinaloa, Mexico; implications for Cordilleran magmatism and tectonics, in Johnson, S.E., et al., eds., Tectonic evolution of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA: Geological Society of America Special Paper 374, p. 237-273.
33. Kimbrough, D.L., Smith, D.P., Mahoney, J.B., Moore, T.E., Grove, M., Gastil, R.G., Ortega-Rivera, A., and Fanning, C.M., 2001, Forearc-basin sedimentary response to rapid Late Cretaceous batholith emplacement in the Peninsular Ranges of southern and Baja California: Geology, v. 29, p. 491-494, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0491:FBSRTR>2.0.CO;2.
34. Langenheim, V.E., and Jachens, R.C., 2003, Crustal structure of the Peninsular Ranges batholith from magnetic data: Implications for Gulf of California rifting: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 30, p. 51-1-51-4.
35. Ledesma-Vazquez, J., Rendon-Marquez, G., and Carreño, A., 1999, Ambientes sedimentarios en la seccion Arroyo Colorado, formacion Tepetate Eoceno temprano-medio, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Geos, v. 19, p. 78-83.
36. Lewis, B.T.R., Robinson, P.T., Benson, R.N., Blackinton, G., Cambon, P., Day, R., Duenebier, F., Flower, M.F.J., Gutiérrez-Estrada, M., Hattner, J.G., Kudo, A.M., Morrison, M.A., Rangin, C., Salisbury, M.H., Schminke, H.U., Stephen, R., and Zolotarev, B.P., 1983, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 752 p.
37. Lonsdale, P., 1991, Structural patterns of the Pacific floor offshore of Peninsular California, in Dauphin, J.P., and Simoneit, B.T., eds., Gulf and peninsular province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 87-125.
38. Lyle, M., and Ness, G.E., 1991, The opening of the Gulf of California, in Dauphin, J.P., and Simoneit, B.T., eds., Gulf and peninsular province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 403-423.
39. Mammerickx, J., and Klitgord, K.D., 1982, Northern East Pacific Rise: Evolution from 25 m.y. to the present: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 87, p. 6751-6759.
40. Marsaglia, K.M., 1991, Provenance of sands and sandstones from a rifted continental arc, Gulf of California, Mexico, in Fisher, R.V., and Smith, G.A., eds., Sedimentation in volcanic settings: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 45, p. 237-248.
41. Marsaglia, K.M., 2004, Sandstone detrital modes support Magdalena Fan displacement from the mouth of the Gulf of California: Geology, v. 32, p. 45-48, doi: 10.1130/G20099.1.
42. Martínez-Gutiérrez, G., and Sethi, P.S., 1997, Miccene-Pleistocene sediments within the San Jose del Cabo Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico, in Johnson, M.E., and Ledesma-Vázquez, J,, eds., Pliocene carbonates and related facies flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Paper 318, p. 141-166.
43. McCloy, C., 1984, Stratigraphy and depositional history of the San José del Cabo trough, Baja California Sur, Mexico, in Frizzell, V.A., ed., Geology of the Baja California Peninsula: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Paper 39, p. 253-265.
44. Michaud, F., Sosson, M., Royer, J.-Y., Chabert, A., Bourgois, J., Calmus, T., Mortera, C., Bigot-Cormier, F., Bandy, B., Dyment, J., Pontoise, B., and Sichler, B., 2004, Motion partitioning between the Pacific plate, Baja California and the North America plate: The Tosco-Abreojos fault revisited: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, p. L08604, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019665.
45. Michaud, F., Royer, J.Y., Bourgois, O., Dyment, J., Calmus, T., Bandy, B., Sosson, M., Mortera-Gutirrez, C., Sichler, B., Rebolledo-Viera, M., and Pontoise, B., 2006, Oceanic-ridge subduction vs. slab break off: Plate tectonic evolution along the Baja California Sur continental margin since 15 Ma: Geology, v. 34, p. 13-16, doi: 10.1130/g22050.1.
46. Milliman, J.D., and Syvitsky, P.M., 1992, Geomorphic/tectonic control of sediment discharge to the ocean: The importance of small mountainous rivers: Journal of Geology, v. 100, p. 525-544.
47. Muehlberger, W.R., 1996, Tectonic map of North America: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 4 p., scale 1:5,000,000.
48. Normark, P., and Curray, J.R., 1968, Geology and structure of the tip of Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 79, p. 1589-1600, doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(1968)79[1589:GASOTT] 2.0.CO;2.
49. Normark, W.R., Spencer, J.E., and Ingle, J., 1987, Geology and Neogene history of the Pacific continental margin of Baja California Sur, Mexico, in Scholl, D.W., et al., eds., Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of western North America and adjacent ocean basins - Beaufort Sea to Baja California: Houston, Texas, Circum-Pacific Counsel for Energy and Mineral Resources. Earth Science Series Volume 6, p. 449-472.
50. Ortega-Rivera, A., 2003, Geochronological constraints on the tectonic history of the Peninsular Ranges batholith of Alta and Baja California: Tectonic implications for western Mexico, in Johnson, S.E., et al., eds., Tectonic evolution of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA: Geological Society of America Special Paper 374, p. 297-335.
51. Oskin, M., and Stock, J., 2003, Pacific-North America plate motion and opening of the Upper Delfin Basin, northern Gulf of California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 1173-1190, doi: 10.1130/B25154.1.
52. Press, W.H., Fannery, B.P., Teukolsky, S.A., and Vetterling, W.T., 1988, Numerical recipes: The art of scientific computing: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
53. Rangin, C., 1978, Speculative model of Mesozoic geodynamics, central Baja California to northeastern Sonora (Mexico), in Howell, D.G., and McDougal, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 85-106.
54. Romo-Jones, J.M., 2002, Conductividad electrica de la litosfera de Baja California en la region de Vizcaino, B.C.S., Mexico [Ph.D. thesis]: Ensenada, Baja California, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada.
55. Sandwell, D.T., and Smith, W.F., 1997, Marine gravity anomaly from Geosat and ERS-1 satellite altimetry: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, p. 10,039-10,054, doi: 10.1029/96JB03223.
56. Sawlan, M.G., 1991, Magmatic evolution of the Gulf of California rift, in Dauphin, J.P., and Simoneit, B.T., eds., Gulf and peninsular province of the Californias: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47, p. 301-370.
57. Sawlan, M.G., and Smith, J.G., 1984, Petrologic characteristics, age and tectonic setting of Neogene volcanic rocks in northern Baja California Sur, in Frizzell, V.A., ed., Geology of the Baja Peninsula: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Paper 39, p. 237-251.
58. Schaaf, P., Bohnel, H., and Pérez-Venzor, J.A., 2000, Pre-Miocene palaeogeography of the Los Cabos block, Baja California Sur: Geochronological and palaeomagnetic constraints: Tectonophysics, v. 318, p. 53-69, doi: 10.1016/SO040-1951(99)00306-6.
59. Schaaf, P., Hall, B.V., and Bissig, T., 2003, The Puerto Vallarta Batholith and Cuale Mining District, Jalisco, Mexico - High diversity parenthood of continental arc magmas and Kuroko-type volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, in Morán-Zenteno, D.J., ed., Geologic transects across cordilleran Mexico, Guidebook for field-trips of the 99th Annual Meeting of the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America, Volume Publicación Especial 1: Mexico, D.F., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, p. 183-199.
60. Sedlock, R.L., 1993, Mesozoic geology and tectonics of blueschist and associated oceanic terranes in the Cedros-Vizcaino-San Benito and Magdalena-Santa Margarita regions, Baja California, Mexico, in Dunne, G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: II: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Book 71, p. 113-126.
61. Sedlock, R.L., Ortega-Gutierrez, F., and Speed, R.C., 1993, Tectonostratigraphic terranes and tectonic evolution of Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Paper 278, 153 p.
62. Severinghaus, J., and Atwater, T., 1989, Cenozoic geometry and thermal condition of the subducting slabs beneath western North America, in Wernicke, B., ed., Basin and Range extensional tectonics near the latitude of Las Vegas: Geological Society of America Memoir 176, p. 1-22.
63. Silver, L.T. and Chappell, B.W., 1988, The Peninsular Ranges Batholith: An insight into the evolution of the Cordilleran batholiths of southwestern North America: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. A79, p. 105-121.
64. Spencer, J.E., and Normark, W.R., 1979, Tosco-Abreojos fault zone: A Neogene transform plate boundary within the Pacific margin of southern Baja California, Mexico: Geology, v. 7, p. 564-557, doi: 10. 1130/ 0091-7613 (1979)7<554:TFZANT>2.0.CO;2.
65. Stock, J.M., and Lee, J.L., 1994, Do microplates in subduction zones leave a geological record?: Tectonics, v. 13, p. 1472-1487, doi: 10.1029/ 94TC01808.
66. Todd, V.R., Shaw, S.E., and Hammarstrom, J.M., 2003, Cretaceous plutons of the Peninsular Ranges Batholith, San Diego and westernmost Imperial counties, California; intrusion across a Late Jurassic continental margin, in Johnson, S.E., et al., eds., Tectonic evolution of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA: Geological Society of America Special Paper 374, p. 185-235.
67. Yeats, R.S., and Haq, B.U., 1981, Deep-sea drilling off the Californias: Implications of Leg 63, in Yeats, R.S., et al., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Volume 63: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 949-961.
68. Yeats, R.S., Haq, B.U., Barron, J.A., Couch, J., Denham, C., Douglas, A.G., Grechin, V.I., Leinnen, M., Niem. A., Palverma, S., Pisciotto, K.A., Poore, R.Z., Shibata, T., and Wolfart, R., 1981, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 967 p.