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DOI | 10.1130/0016-7606(1993)105<1373:TAROTF>2.3.CO;2 |
TILT AND ROTATION OF THE FOOTWALL OF A MAJOR NORMAL-FAULT SYSTEM - PALEOMAGNETISM OF THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, DEATH-VALLEY EXTENDED TERRANE, CALIFORNIA | |
HOLM, DK; GEISSMAN, JW; WERNICKE, B | |
通讯作者 | HOLM, DK |
来源期刊 | GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN
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ISSN | 0016-7606 |
出版年 | 1993 |
卷号 | 105期号:10页码:1373-1387 |
英文摘要 | Paleomagnetic data have been obtained from Miocene intrusions, including crosscutting mafic and felsic dikes, and Proterozoic crystalline rocks to evaluate deformation during Miocene and younger extension and unroofing of the Black Mountains, Death Valley, California. Synrift intrusions contain a well-defined and, at the site level, well-grouped magnetization, interpreted to be of dual polarity, the in situ direction of which is discordant in declination and inclination with an expected late Cenozoic reference direction. The oldest of these intrusions (11.6 +/- 0.2 Ma) gives a magnetite-dominated remanent magnetization of high coercivity and high laboratory unblocking temperatures (about 550 to 580-degrees-C) that is interpreted to predate unroofing from midcrustal depths. In situ site mean directions of this magnetization are directed toward the west and west-northwest with moderate to shallow positive (down) and negative (up) inclinations. The variation in direction of magnetization, particularly inclination, with site locality around the turtleback structures along the western flank of the Black Mountains, is interpreted to result from folding of the intrusion after remanence acquisition. Younger intrusions (less-than-or-equal-to 8.7 Ma) generally give magnetizations with inclinations similar to expected Miocene values. Two populations of in situ site means are identified: one with southwest dectination and negative inclination; the other with northward declination and positive inclination. A preferred interpretation for footwall deformation involves, from oldest to youngest: (1) southwest-side down tilting of the entire range block of some 20-degrees to 40-degrees to possibly 70-degrees and, at least locally, folding of the crystalline rocks, on a trend parallel to the Death Valley turtlebacks, between 11.6 and 8.7 Ma; (2) progressive east-to-west footwall unroofing between 8.7 and ca. 6.5 Ma; and (3) clockwise rotation (50-degrees to 80-degrees) of much of the Black Mountains after the core detached from stable terrane to the west. We interpret late rotation of the Black Mountains as oroflexure related to right-lateral shear along the Death Valley fault zone. |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:A1993MB29800008 |
WOS关键词 | WEST-CENTRAL NEVADA ; SHEAR ZONE ; TERTIARY EXTENSION ; TECTONIC ROTATION ; SOUTHERN NEVADA ; RANGE ; REGION ; DESERT ; EVOLUTION ; REVERSAL |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/128777 |
作者单位 | (1)UNIV NEW MEXICO,DEPT EARTH & PLANETARY SCI,ALBUQUERQUE,NM 87131 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | HOLM, DK,GEISSMAN, JW,WERNICKE, B. TILT AND ROTATION OF THE FOOTWALL OF A MAJOR NORMAL-FAULT SYSTEM - PALEOMAGNETISM OF THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, DEATH-VALLEY EXTENDED TERRANE, CALIFORNIA[J],1993,105(10):1373-1387. |
APA | HOLM, DK,GEISSMAN, JW,&WERNICKE, B.(1993).TILT AND ROTATION OF THE FOOTWALL OF A MAJOR NORMAL-FAULT SYSTEM - PALEOMAGNETISM OF THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, DEATH-VALLEY EXTENDED TERRANE, CALIFORNIA.GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN,105(10),1373-1387. |
MLA | HOLM, DK,et al."TILT AND ROTATION OF THE FOOTWALL OF A MAJOR NORMAL-FAULT SYSTEM - PALEOMAGNETISM OF THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, DEATH-VALLEY EXTENDED TERRANE, CALIFORNIA".GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN 105.10(1993):1373-1387. |
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