Significance of detrital zircons in upper Devonian ocean-basin strata of the Sonora allochthon and Lower Permian synorogenic strata of the Mina Mexico foredeep, central Sonora, Mexico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 442, Issue , 2008, Pages 121-131

  Poole, Forrest G ^a   Gehrels, George E ^b   Stewart, John H ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Paleozoic stratigraphy and tectonics; Permian foredeep; Sediment provenance; Sonora allochthon; Southwest laurentia

Indexed keywords

BARITE; BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; LAKES; LEAD ALLOYS; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SONORA ALLOCHTHON; SOUTHWEST LAURENTIA;

GALLIUM;

ALLOCHTHON; ARCHEAN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DEVONIAN; FOREARC BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; GRENVILLE PROVINCE; LAKE SUPERIOR; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 75249095006     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.442(08)     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Anderson, J.L., 1989, Proterozoic anorogenic granites of the southwestern United States, in Jenney, J.P., and Reynolds, S.J., eds., Geologic evolution of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Digest 17, p. 211-238.
2. Anderson, J.L., Wooden, J.L., and Bender, E.E., 1993, Mojave Province of southern California and vicinity, in Van Schmus, W.R., and Bickford, M.E., co-eds., Transcontinental Proterozoic Provinces, in Reed, J.C., Jr., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R., eds., Precambrian: Conterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, v. C-2, p. 176-188.
3. Anderson, T.H., and Silver, L.T., 1981, An overview of Precambrian rocks in Sonora: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Revista, v. 5, no. 2, p. 131-139.
4. Anderson, T.H., and Silver, L.T., 2005, The Mojave-Sonora megashear-Evaluation of the hypothesis, in Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., The Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Development, assessment, and alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p. 1-50.
5. Armbrustmacher, T.J., 1984, Alkaline rock complexes in the Wet Mountains area, Custer and Fremont Counties, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1269, 33 p.
6. Barnes, M.A., Rohs, C.R., Anthony, E.Y., Van Schmus, W.R., and Denison, R.E., 1999, Isotopic and elemental chemistry of subsurface Precambrian igneous rocks, west Texas and eastern New Mexico, in Boyd, D.W., Lille-graven, J.A., and Snoke, A.W., eds., Proterozoic magmatism of the Rocky Mountains and environs, Part I: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 34, no. 2, p. 245-261.
7. Barth, A.P., Wooden, J.L., Coleman, D.S., and Fanning, C.M., 2000, Geochronology of the Proterozoic basement of southwesternmost North America, and the origin and evolution of the Mojave crustal province: Tectonics, v. 19, no. 4, p. 616-629, doi: 10.1029/1999TC001145.
8. Evans, K.V., and Clemons, R.E., 1988, Cambrian-Ordovician (500 Ma) al-kalic plutonism in southwestern New Mexico: U-Th-Pb isotopic data from the Florida Mountains: American Journal of Science, v. 288, no. 7, p. 735-755.
9. Farmer, G.L., Bowring, S.A., Matzel, J.P., Maldonado, G.E., Fedo, C., and Wooden, J.L., 2005, Paleoproterozoic Mojave Province in northwestern Mexico? Isotopic and U-Pb zircon geochronologic studies of Precam-brian and Cambrian crystalline and sedimentary rocks, Caborca, Sonora, in Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., The Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Development, assessment, and alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p. 183-198.
10. Gehrels, G.E., and Dickinson, W.R., 1995, Detrital zircon provenance of Cambrian to Triassic miogeoclinal and eugeoclinal strata in Nevada: American Journal of Science, v. 295, no. 1, p. 18-48.
11. Gehrels, G.E., and Stewart, J.H., 1998, Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Cambrian to Triassic miogeoclinal and eugeoclinal strata of Sonora, Mexico: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, no. B2, p. 2471-2487, doi: 10.1029/97JB03251.
12. Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Smith, A.G., et al., 2005, A geologic time scale 2004: Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 589 p.
13. Gross, E.L., Stewart, J.H., and Gehrels, G.E., 2000, Detrital zircon geochronol-ogy of Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian miogeoclinal and platformal strata: Northwest Sonora, Mexico: Geofisica Internacional, v. 39, no. 4, p. 295-308.
14. Ham, W.E., Denison, R.E., and Merritt, C.A., 1964, Basement rocks and structural evolution of southern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 95, 302 p.
15. Hoffman, P.F., 1989, Precambrian geology and tectonic history of North America, in Bally, A.W., and Palmer, A.R., eds., The geology of North America: An overview: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, v. A, p. 447-512.
16. Iriondo, A., 2001, Proterozoic basements and their Laramide juxtaposition in NW Sonora, Mexico: Tectonic constraints on the SW margin of Laurentia [Ph.D. thesis]: Boulder, University of Colorado, 222 p.
17. Iriondo, A., Premo, W.R., Martinez-Torres, L.M., Budahn, J.R., Atkinson, W.W., Jr., Siems, D.F., and Guaras-Gonzalez, B., 2004, Isotopic, geo-chemical, and temporal characterization of Proterozoic basement rocks in the Quitovac region, northwestern Sonora, Mexico: Implications for the reconstruction of the southwestern margin of Laurentia: Geological Society ofAmerica Bulletin, v. 116, no. 1/2, p. 154-170; Data Repository item 2004027.
18. Karlstrom, K.E., and Bowring, S.A., 1993, Proterozoic orogenic history of Arizona, in Van Schmus, W.R., and Bickford, M.E., co-eds., Transcontinental Proterozoic Provinces, in Reed, J.C., Jr., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R., eds., Pre-cambrian: Conterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, v. C-2, p. 188-211.
19. Karlstrom, K.E., Harlan, S.S., Williams, M.L., McLelland, J., Geissman, J.W., and Ahall, K.I., 1999, Refining Rodinia: Geologic evidence for the Australia-western U.S. connection in the Proterozoic: GSA Today, v. 9, no. 10, p. 1-7.
20. Karlstrom, K.E., et al., 2002, Structure and evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Rocky Mountains: Initial results from the CD-ROM experiment: GSA Today, v. 12, no. 3, p. 4-10.
21. Krogh, T.E., 1982, Improved accuracy of U-Pb zircon ages by the creation of more concordant systems using an air abrasion technique: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 46, p. 637-649, doi: 10.1016/ 0016-7037(82)90165-X.
22. Loring, A.K., and Armstrong, D.G., 1980, Cambrian-Ordovician syenites of New Mexico, part of a regional alkalic intrusive episode: Geology, v. 8, no. 7, p. 344-348, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1980)8<344:CSONMP>2.0.CO;2.
23. Ludwig, K.R., 1991a, A computer program for processing Pb-U-Th isotopic data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-542, 32 p.
24. Ludwig, K.R., 1991b, A plotting and regression program for radiogenic-isoto-pic data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-445, 45 p.
25. Matheney, R.K., Brookins, D.G., Wallin, E.T., Shafiqullah, M., and Damon, P.E., 1990, Incompletely reset Rb-Sr systems from a Cambrian red-rock granophyre terrane, Florida Mountains, New Mexico, U.S.A.: Chemical Geology, v. 86, p. 29-47.
26. McLemore, V.T., McMillan, N.J., Heizler, M., and McKee, C., 1999, Cambrian alkaline rocks at Lobo Hill, Torrance County, New Mexico: More evidence for a Cambrian-Ordovician aulacogen, in Pazzaglia, F.J., and Lucas, S.G., eds., Albuquerque Geology: New Mexico Geological Society, 50th Annual Field Conference, 22-25 September 1999, p. 247-253.
27. McLemore, V.T., Rämö, O.T., Kosunen, P.J., Heizler, M., Haapala, I., and Mc-Kee, C., 2000, Geology and geochemistry of Proterozoic granitic and mafic rocks in the Redrock area, northern Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico-A progress report, in Lawton, T.F., McMillan, N.J., and Mc-Lemore, V.T., eds., Southwest Passage-A trip through the Phanerozoic: New Mexico Geological Society, 51st Annual Field Conference, 18-21 October 2000, p. 117-126.
28. McMillan, N.J., and McLemore, V.T., 2004, Cambrian-Ordovician magmatism and extension in New Mexico and Colorado: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Bulletin 160, p. 1-11.
29. McMillan, N.J., McLemore, V.T., and Erwin, S.D., 2000, Cambrian tectonics of New Mexico and Colorado, in Lawton, T.F., McMillan, N.J., and Mc-Lemore, V.T., eds., Southwest Passage-A trip through the Phanerozoic: New Mexico Geological Society, 51st Annual Field Conference, 18-21 October 2000, p. 37-39.
30. Poole, F.G., and Madrid, R.J., 1988, Comparison of allochthonous eugeoclinal rocks in the Sonoran, Marathon, and Antler orogens: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, no. 7, p. A267.
31. Poole, F.G., Madrid, R.J., and Oliva-Becerril, J.F., 1991, Geological setting and origin of stratiform barite in central Sonora, Mexico, in Raines, G.L., Lisle, R.E., Schafer, R.W., and Wilkinson, W.H., eds., Geology and ore deposits of the Great Basin: Proceedings, Geological Society of Nevada Symposium, Reno/Sparks, Nevada, April 1990, v. I, p. 517-522.
32. Poole, F.G., and Perry, W.J., Jr., 1997, The late Paleozoic Ouachita-Marathon-Sonora orogenic system along the southern margin of North America: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 2, p. 43.
33. Poole, F.G., Perry, W.J., Jr., Madrid, R.J., and Amaya-Martinez, R., 2005, Tectonic synthesis of the Ouachita-Marathon-Sonora orogenic margin of southern Laurentia: Stratigraphic and structural implications for timing of deformational events and plate-tectonic model, in Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., The Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Development, assessment, and alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p. 543-596.
34. Rämö, O.T., McLemore, V.T., Hamilton, M.A., Kosunen, P.J., Heizler, M., and Haapala, I., 2003, Intermittent 1630-1220 Ma magmatism in central Mazatzal Province: New geochronologic piercing points and some tectonic implications: Geology, v. 31, no. 4, p. 335-338, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003) 031<0335:IMMICM>2.0.CO;2.
35. Reed, J.C., Jr., 1993, Map of the Precambrian rocks of the conterminous United States and some adjacent parts of Canada (plate 1), in Reed, J.C., Jr., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R., Precambrian: Conterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, v. C-2, plate 1.
36. Ross, G.M., and Villeneuve, M., 2003, Provenance of the Mesoproterozoic (1.45 Ga) Belt basin (western North America): Another piece in the pre-Rodinia paleogeographic puzzle: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, no. 10, p. 1191-1217, doi: 10.1130/B25209.1.
37. Sims, P.K., editor, Anderson, J.L., Bauer, R.L., Chandler, V.W., Hanson, G.N., Kalliokoski, J., Morey, G.B., Mudrey, M.G., Jr., Ojakangas, R.W., Peter-man, Z.E., Schulz, K.J., Shirey, S.B., Smith, E.I., Southwick, D.L., Van Schmus, W.R., and Weiblen, P.W., 1993, The Lake Superior region and Trans-Hudson orogen, in Reed, J.C., Jr., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R., eds., Precambrian: Conterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, v. C-2, p. 11-120.
38. Smith, D.R., Noblett, J., Wobus, R.A., Reinhard, A., Unruh, D., and Chamberlain, K.R., 1999, A review of the Pikes Peak batholith, Front Range, central Colorado: A "type example" of A-type granitic magmatism, in Boyd, D.W., Lillegraven, J.A., and Snoke, A.W., eds., Proterozoic magmatism of the Rocky Mountains and environs, Part I: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 34, no. 2, p. 289-312.
39. Stewart, J.H., 2005, Evidence for Mojave-Sonora megashear-Systematic left-lateral offset of Neoproterozoic to Lower Jurassic strata and facies, western United States and northwestern Mexico, in Anderson, T.H., Nourse, J.A., McKee, J.W., and Steiner, M.B., eds., The Mojave-Sonora mega-shear hypothesis: Development, assessment, and alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p. 209-231.
40. Stewart, J.H., Amaya-Martínez, R., Stamm, R.G., Wardlaw, B.R., Stanley, G.D., Jr., and Stevens, C.H., 1997, Stratigraphy and regional significance of Mississippian to Jurassic rocks in Sierra Santa Teresa, Sonora, Mexico: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas, v. 14, no. 2, p. 115-135.
41. Stewart, J.H., Gehrels, G.E., Barth, A.P., Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., and Wrucke, C.T., 2001, Detrital zircon provenance of Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian arenites in the western United States and northwestern Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, no. 10, p. 1343-1356, doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<1343:DZPOMT>2.0.CO;2.
42. Stewart, J.H., Poole, F.G., Harris, A.G., Repetski, J.E., Wardlaw, B.R., Mamet, B.L., and Morales-Ramírez, J.M., 1999, Neoproterozoic(?) to Pennsylva-nian inner-shelf, miogeoclinal strata in Sierra Agua Verde, Sonora, Mexico: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas, v. 16, no. 1, p. 35-62.
43. Timmons, J.M., Karlstrom, K.E., Dehler, C.M., Geissman, J.W., and Heizler, M.T., 2001, Proterozoic multistage (ca. 1.1 and 0.8 Ga) extension recorded in the Grand Canyon Supergroup and establishment of northwest- and north-trending tectonic grains in the southwestern United States: Geological Society ofAmerica Bulletin, v. 113, no. 2, p. 163-180, doi: 10.1130/0 016-7606(2001)113<0163:PMCAGE>2.0.CO;2.
44. Van Schmus, W.R., and Bickford, M.E., co-editors, Anderson, J.L., Bender, E.E., Anderson, R.R., Bauer, P.W., Robertson, J.M., Bowring, S.A., Condie, K.C., Denison, R.E., Gilbert, M.C., Grambling, J.A., Mawer, C.K., Shearer, C.K., Hinze, W.J., Karlstrom, K.E., Kisvarsanyi, E.B., Lidiak, E.G., Reed, J.C., Jr., Sims, P.K., Tweto, O., Silver, L.T., Treves, S.B., Williams, M.L., and Wooden, J.L., 1993, Transcontinental Proterozoic Provinces, in Reed, J.C., Jr., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R., eds., Precambrian: Conterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, v. C-2, p. 171-334.
45. Wooden, J.L., and DeWitt, E., 1991, Pb isotopic evidence for the formation of Proterozoic crust in the southwestern United States, in Ernst, W.G., ed., Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the western United States: Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, Rubey Volume VII, p. 69-86.