Late Paleozoic basin formation and crustal deformation, ancestral Rocky Mountains province, Arizona and New Mexico
Conference
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· Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States)
OSTI ID:5019399
- New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM (United States)
Late Paleozoic collision of Laurussia and Gondwanaland resulted in regionally consistent sedimentation patterns that record two modes of lithospheric deformation in Arizona and New Mexico. Discrete intraforeland depocenters, the Orogrande and Pedregosa basins, formed in middle to late Pennsylvanian time (late Atokan-Virgilian). A regional unconformity is present at the base of the Permian system. Early Wolfcampian depositional thicknesses largely mimic and accentuate those of the Pennsylvanian, but later Wolfcampian rocks onlap intraforeland uplifts. Depositional systems paralleled the larger collision suture; a marine basin in southern New Mexico and Arizona graded northward to widespread redbeds deposited by south-flowing rivers. Intraforeland highs in northern Arizona and New Mexico were blanketed by sediment in late Wolfcampian time, whereas uplifts in southern New Mexico were covered in the Leonardian. Pennsylvanian basins formed during intraforeland wrench faulting that resulted from initial collision of marginal salients on one or both of the continental masses. The Wolfcampian basin formed through a combination of renewed wrenching and flexural subsidence during final suturing of the two supercontinents.
- OSTI ID:
- 5019399
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9305259--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States) Journal Volume: 25:5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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