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Rapid middle Miocene extension and unroofing of the southern Ruby Mountains, Nevada

Authors :
Colgan, Joseph P.
Howard, Keith A.
Fleck, Robert J.
Wooden, Joseph L.
Source :
Tectonics. Dec, 2010, Vol. 29 Issue 6, pTC6022, 38 p.
Publication Year :
2010

Abstract

[1] Paleozoic rocks in the northern Ruby Mountains were metamorphosed during Mesozoic crustal shortening and Cenozoic magmatism, but equivalent strata in the southern Ruby Mountains were never buried deeper than stratigraphic depths prior to exhumation in the footwall of a west dipping brittle normal fault. In the southern Ruby Mountains, Miocene sedimentary rocks in the hanging wall of this fault date from 15.2 to 11.6 Ma and contain abundant detritus from the Paleozoic section. Apatite fission track and (U-Th)/ He samples of the Eocene Harrison Pass pluton record rapid cooling that peaked ca. 17-15 Ma, while apatite fission track data from Jurassic plutons east and west of the southern Ruby Mountains indicate near-surface temperatures (

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
02787407
Volume :
29
Issue :
6
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
Tectonics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.253224179