Mazatzal orogeny
The Mazatzal orogeny was an
Description
Age and isotope data show that southern North America is composed of a series of northeast-trending provinces representing island arc terranes accreted onto the 1800 Mya core of Laurentia.
Some of the orogens were accompanied by
The northeast-trending provinces are truncated by Neoproterozoic passive margins that indicate the orogenic system once extended much further. This part of the basis for the AUSWUS reconstruction of Rodinia, which places Australia adjacent to the southwestern US from 1800 to 1000 Mya. Other supporting evidence includes correspondence of 1450 and 1000 Ga paleomagnetic poles between Australia and Laurentia.[2] The northeastern extension of the orogenic belt would then correspond to the Gothian orogeny[9] in Baltica and the southwestern extension to the Albany-Fraser orogeny.[10] The close correspondence of detrital zircon ages and Hf isotope isotopes between the Mazazatl province and Australia supports this reconstruction.[11] However, the placement of Australia has been disputed on the basis of paleomagnetic data.[12] The SWEAT reconstruction places East Antarctica on the southwest extension of the Yavapai Province.[13]
The Mazatzal Province was originally described as the "Mazatzal Revolution" by Wilson in 1939, who had mapped the northern and southern
Deformation from the Mazatzal Orogeny extended into a foreland zone of the Yavapai province. Plutons emplaced by the orogeny may extend as far north as the Cheyenne belt and as far northwest as the Mojave province.[6]
Relationship to Picuris Orogeny
A number of quartzite-rhyolite successions previously associated with the Mazatal orogeny have been shown to contain both Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic formations, based on detrital zircon geochronology.[5] The younger formations define the Picuris orogeny at 1450–1300 Mya.[8] This has raised the question of whether the Mazatzal origeny was actually distinct from the Picuris orogeny.[1]
Silver estimated the timing of the Mazatzal orogeny as between 1715
Further mapping in the 1970s and 1980s showed that the
New mapping and utilization of detrital zircon geochronology during the 2010s were able to constrain the age of the youngest sediments above the Mazatzal Group involved in the classic deformation of the Mazatzal orogeny. Detrital zircons from the
These timings are contemporaneous with the timing of deformation of the Picuris orogeny defined in north-central New Mexico.[23] However, there are indications of three distinct orogenic episodes at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, with an exhumation surface separating Yavapai and Mazatzal events.[24] The Sandia, Manzano, and Los Pinos Mountains of central New Mexico contain 1.65-1.66 Ga plutons which are interpreted as a magmatic arc system in which plutons were intruding their own volcanic edifices and were also intruding developing syn-contractional, arc-related sedimentary basins. These are distinct from the plutons emplaced syntectonically 1453 to 1456 Mya during the Picuris orogeny.[25] The orogenies may be distinct but with the Picuris orogeny badly overprinting the earlier Mazatzal orogeny.[1]
See also
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