Late Paleozoic or early Mesozoic magnetizations in remagnetized Paleozoic rocks, State of Oaxaca, Mexico
dc.contributor.author | McCabe, Chad | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Van der Voo, Rob | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T20:06:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T20:06:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1988-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | McCabe, Chad, Van der Voo, Rob, Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime (1988/12)."Late Paleozoic or early Mesozoic magnetizations in remagnetized Paleozoic rocks, State of Oaxaca, Mexico." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 91(1-2): 205-213. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/27031> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V61-473M7V5-61/2/1ada443bcde698e7b0c9a03e914f0656 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/27031 | |
dc.description.abstract | Characteristics of the Oaxaca Terrane of southern Mexico suggest that the record of a complete Wilson cycle is present. The local basement is composed of high-grade rocks of the Oaxaca Complex, which is considered to have North American affinities based on Grenvillian lithologies and ages. In contrast, early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in depositional contact with the Oaxaca Complex have very close faunal affinities with the Olenid-Ceratopygid trilobite province of Argentina. Late Paleozoic faunas indicate that by this time the Oaxaca Terrane was once again associated with North America. In an attempt to gain further insight into the drift history of this area, we have undertaken a paleomagnetic study of the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of Oaxaca.The results of our study indicate that the entire Paleozoic section was remagnetized in the same paleomagnetic field at some time following late Paleozoic sedimentation, emplacement of an igneous complex, and the earlier of two folding events. Fold and conglomerate tests show that the remagnetization occurred prior to deposition and folding of overlying early Cretaceous sediments. The Oaxaca Paleozoic rocks were therefore remagnetized sometime between late Permian and early Cretaceous. Since the exact age of remagnetization is not known, we compare our result with data from cratonic North America for the bracketed range of magnetization ages. This analysis indicates that as much as 28[deg] of net counterclockwise rotation could have occurred between Oaxaca and cratonic North America subsequent to the Oaxaca remagnetization. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Late Paleozoic or early Mesozoic magnetizations in remagnetized Paleozoic rocks, State of Oaxaca, Mexico | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Geology and Earth Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Delegacion Coyoacan 04510 D.F., México, Mexico | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/27031/1/0000019.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(88)90162-8 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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