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DOI10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.003
The West Water Formation (Hualapai Plateau, Arizona, USA) as a calcrete-paleosol sequence, and its implications for the Paleogene-Neogene evolution of the southwestern Colorado Plateau
Hill, Carol A.1; Polyak, Victor J.1; Nash, David J.2,3; Asmerom, Yemane1; Provencio, Paula P.1
通讯作者Hill, Carol A.
来源期刊PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
ISSN0031-0182
EISSN1872-616X
出版年2017
卷号479页码:146-163
英文摘要

Analyses of stratigraphic sequences within the paleocanyons of the Hualapai Plateau, Arizona, are important because these deposits offer the only evidence for the Paleogene-Neogene geological history of the Grand Canyon area. In this paper, we focus on the origins and paleoenvironmental significance of the West Water Formation, located within the Milkweed and West Water paleocanyons on the Hualapai Plateau. We propose that the supposed "limestone unit" of the West Water Formation at and near its type section is not a limestone; rather, it is a 21 m-thick valley calcrete, overprinted by a similar to 1-2 m-thick pedogenic calcrete, and subsequently dolomitized in its upper-to-middle sections, with a superimposed 4 m-thick red paleosol. We also propose that this unit is not coeval in age or origin with the Long Point limestone on the Coconino Plateau, and that the presence of a complex calcrete-dolocrete-paleosol alters previous interpretations associated with this unit. Evidence for a calcrete-paleosol origin, beyond the West Water Formation’s lack of fossils, includes: its predominantly micritic calcite-palygorskite composition; its textures characteristic of valley and pedogenic calcrete deposits (as exhibited by thin section, SEM, and TEM analyses); and its association with a relatively thick overlying red paleosol that also contains abundant palygorskite. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope values from carbonate cements are also within the range expected of a near-surface calcrete. Carbonate minerals within the calcrete-dolocrete were precipitated at or near the water table in a valley setting due to evaporation and/or CO2 degassing in a semi-arid to arid environment of deposition. High Sr-87/Sr-86 values within the calcrete were inherited from groundwater infiltrating through Music Mountain Formation arkosic sediments, which were derived from a Precambrian source terrane to the south and southwest. No absolute ages exist for the Music Mountain Formation and West Water Formation in the Milkweed and West Water paleocanyons; these sediments could range in age from the Late Cretaceous to the latest Eocene-earliest Oligocene, and may record the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in the Grand Canyon area. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


英文关键词Calcrete Dolocrete Paleosol Grand Canyon Hualapai Plateau Eocene-Oligocene Transition
类型Article
语种英语
国家USA ; England ; South Africa
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000402945200012
WOS关键词GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE ZONE ; GRAND-CANYON ; SOUTHEAST SPAIN ; GENESIS ; BASIN ; CARBONATES ; DRAINAGE ; KALAHARI ; LITHOFACIES ; GLACIATION
WOS类目Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Paleontology
WOS研究方向Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/201358
作者单位1.Univ New Mexico, Earth & Planetary Sci, 221 Yale Blvd, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA;
2.Univ Brighton, Sch Environm & Technol, Lewes Rd, Brighton BN2 4GJ, E Sussex, England;
3.Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Studies, Private Bag 3, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa
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Hill, Carol A.,Polyak, Victor J.,Nash, David J.,et al. The West Water Formation (Hualapai Plateau, Arizona, USA) as a calcrete-paleosol sequence, and its implications for the Paleogene-Neogene evolution of the southwestern Colorado Plateau[J],2017,479:146-163.
APA Hill, Carol A.,Polyak, Victor J.,Nash, David J.,Asmerom, Yemane,&Provencio, Paula P..(2017).The West Water Formation (Hualapai Plateau, Arizona, USA) as a calcrete-paleosol sequence, and its implications for the Paleogene-Neogene evolution of the southwestern Colorado Plateau.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,479,146-163.
MLA Hill, Carol A.,et al."The West Water Formation (Hualapai Plateau, Arizona, USA) as a calcrete-paleosol sequence, and its implications for the Paleogene-Neogene evolution of the southwestern Colorado Plateau".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 479(2017):146-163.
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