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MESOZOIC ROCKS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA AND ADJACENT AREAS Edited by William R. Dickinson and Margaret A. Klute CRETACEOUS TECTONIC SETTING Neoge n e � San Andreas D e x tral Transform System � \ .':'-. . . ::, , " I) . -::;.:::.:.::.?, -......: ?:::�? L, i q'9hlands I Early Cretaceous Depocenter :::::. .' . " : . . :' ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY DIGEST VOLUME 18 Tucson, Arizona 1 987 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Foreword . • • • . . . . . . . . . • • • • . • . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . . • • . • . . . . . • . . . • • • • • • • • • • . . . • . . . • . . . . . . . • . • • • • • . . ii • • • • • • • • • • • . . • . • . . • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • . . . • . • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . . • • • • • • • . . • . . . . • . . • • • • • . • iii Table of Contents • • . • • • . . • . • • . . • • . . • • . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • . . . • • . . . . . . . • . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . . . • . • • • • . • • • • • Geographic Index Map . . . • . . • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • • • • . . . . . . • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • . • • • • • . . . . . • . . . . . • . . • • • • • • . iv vi Southeastern California Permian to Middle Triassic Rocks of the Mojave Desert J. Douglas Walker Mesozoic Tectonic and Magmatic History of the Central Mojave Desert C. R. Karish, E.L. Miller, and J.F. Sutter 15 Mesozoic Geology and Tectonics of the Big Maria Mountains Region, Southeastern California Warren Hamilton 33 Geochemistry of the Orocopia Schist, Southeastern California: Summary Gordon B. Haxel, James R. Budahn, Terry L. Fries, Bi-Shia W. King, Lloyd D. White, and Phillip J. Aruscavage 49 Southwestern Arizona Stratigraphy and U-Th-Pb Geochronology of Triassic and Jurassic Rocks in West-Central Arizona Stephen J. Reynolds, Jon E. Spencer, and Ed DeWitt Structure and Stratigraphy of Mesozoic Sedimentary and Volcanic Rocks in the New Water Mountains, Southwestern Arizona David R. Sherrod and Richard D. Koch • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • . . . . . . • . . • • • • • • • • • • • • . • . • • • • . . • • . • . . • • • • • • Mesozoic Stratigraphy of the Granite Wash Mountains, West-Central Arizona Stephen E. Laubach, Stephen J. Reynold, and Jon E. Spencer Mesozoic Stratigraphy of the Little Harquahala and Harquahala Mountains, West-Central Arizona Stephen M. Richard, Stephen J. Reynolds, and Jon E. Spencer 65 81 91 101 Southeastern Arizona and Northern Sonora Canelo Hills Volcanics Paleomagnetism of the Jurassic Canelo Hills Volcanics, Southeastern Arizona Steven R. May and Robert F. Butler Geochemistry of the Canelo Hills Volcanics and Implications for the Jurassic Tectonic Setting of Southeastern Arizona C.K. Krebs and Joaquin Ruiz • . . . . . . • . . • • • . . . • . • . . • . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . • • • • • . . . • • • • • • • • • • . • . • • 121 139 Stratigraphy and Structure Geology of the Planchas de Plata Area, Northern Sonora, Mexico Lawrence Segerstrom Stratigraphy, Structure, and Geochemistry of Mesozoic Rocks in the Paj arito Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona Nancy Riggs • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . • • • • • • . • • • iv 1 53 165 TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) Tectonic Implications of Stratigraphy and Structure of Cretaceous Rocks and Overlying Mid-Tertiary Cover in Hot Springs Canyon, Galiuro Mountains, Southeastern Arizona Thomas Co Goodlin and Roger Ao Mark 177 Mesozoic and Early Tertiary Structural History of the Geesaman Wash Area, Northeastern Catalina-Rincon Metamorphic Core Complex Susanne U J anecke 0000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000 189 0000000000000 203 000000000000 0 Clastic Sedimentology Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of Lower Cretaceous Rocks, Sierra El Chanate, Northwest Sonora, Mexico Cesar Jacques-Ayala and Paul Edwin Potter Sedimentation and Stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Amole Arkose, Tucson Mountains, Arizona Rob Risley 215 Regional Stratigraphic, Sedimentologic, and Tectonic Relationships of the Glance Conglomerate in Southeastern Arizona William L. Bilodeau, Charles F Kluth, and Laurel Ko Vedder 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 229 0 Petrofacies of Morita Formation (Bisbee Group), Southeastern Arizona and Northern Sonora, Mexico Kermit Jamison 257 Tectonic Significance of Sandstone Petrofacies Within the Bisbee Basin of Southeastern Arizona Margaret Ao Klute 263 Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Bisbee Group in the Whetstone Mountains, Southeastern Arizona Lawrence Eo Archibald Cretaceous Sedimentary Geology of the Rucker Canyon Area, Cochise County, Arizona Fo Alan Lindberg 00000000000000000 273 0000000000000000000000000000000 283 Depositional Environments and Sandstone Petrography of Cretaceous Sedimentary Rocks, Adobe Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Southeastern Arizona Kerry F Inman 0 0 301 0000000000000000000000000 315 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0 Depositional History of Upper Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation in Southeastern Arizona Michael Jo Hayes Carbonate Sedimentology Stratigraphy and Correlation Robert Wo Scott 0 f the Cretaceous Mural Limestone, Arizona and Sonora 327 Revised Stratigraphy of the Mural Limestone: A Lower Cretaceous Carbonate Shelf in Arizona and Sonora Eo Robert Warzeski Bisbee Group (Lower Cretaceous) Carbonates, Guadalupe Canyon Area, Southeastern Arizona Robert Co Ferguson 00000000000000 335 00000000000000000000000000 365 Southwestern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua Tectonic, Eustatic, and Climatic Control on Cretaceous (Aptian to Turonian) Sedimentation in Southwestern New Mexico Greg Ho Mack 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mesozoic Geology of Northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico MoL. 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