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MESOZOIC ROCKS OF
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AND ADJACENT AREAS
Edited by William R. Dickinson and Margaret A. Klute
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ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY DIGEST VOLUME 18
Tucson, Arizona
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Foreword
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Table of Contents
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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
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Mesozoic Geology and Tectonics of the Big Maria Mountains Region, Southeastern California
Warren Hamilton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mesozoic and Early Tertiary Structural History of the Geesaman Wash Area,
Northeastern Catalina-Rincon Metamorphic Core Complex
Susanne U J anecke
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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
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Regional Stratigraphic, Sedimentologic, and Tectonic Relationships of the
Glance Conglomerate in Southeastern Arizona
William L. Bilodeau, Charles F Kluth, and Laurel Ko Vedder
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Petrofacies of Morita Formation (Bisbee Group), Southeastern Arizona and Northern Sonora, Mexico
Kermit Jamison
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Tectonic Significance of Sandstone Petrofacies Within the Bisbee Basin of Southeastern Arizona
Margaret Ao Klute
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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
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Depositional Environments and Sandstone Petrography of Cretaceous Sedimentary Rocks,
Adobe Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Southeastern Arizona
Kerry F Inman
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Depositional History of Upper Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation in Southeastern Arizona
Michael Jo Hayes
Carbonate Sedimentology
Stratigraphy and Correlation
Robert Wo Scott
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f the Cretaceous Mural Limestone, Arizona and Sonora
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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
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Southwestern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua
Tectonic, Eustatic, and Climatic Control on Cretaceous (Aptian to Turonian)
Sedimentation in Southwestern New Mexico
Greg Ho Mack
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Mesozoic Geology of Northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico
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