Protolith age of the Altar and Carnero complexes and latest Cretaceous–Miocene deformation in the Caborca–Altar region of northwestern Sonora, Mexico

Protolith age of the Altar and Carnero complexes and latest Cretaceous–Miocene deformation in the Caborca–Altar region of northwestern Sonora, Mexico

In the Caborca–Altar area of northwest Sonora, variably deformed and metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks crop out in a northwest-southeast–trending belt (El Batamote belt) at least 70 km long. We obtained detrital zircon U-Pb ages from two distinctive components of the belt near Altar, her...

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Main Authors: Carl E. Jacobson, César Jacques-Ayala, Andrew P. Barth, Juan Carlos García y Barragán, Jane N. Pedrick, Joseph L. Wooden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2019-03-01
Series:Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas
Subjects:
Altar complex
Carnero complex
El Batamote belt
El Chanate Group
Mojave-Sonora megashear
Laramide orogeny
Online Access:https://rmcg.unam.mx/index.php/rmcg/article/view/784
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