The Mojave-Sonora megashear-Field and analytical studies leading to the conception and evolution of the hypothesis

TH Anderson, LT Silver, JA Nourse… - SPECIAL …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The megashear hypothesis is based upon reconnaissance geologic and geochronologic
studies conducted principally from 1968 until 1974 in northwestern Sonora, Mexico. Our …

Geodynamic interpretation of Paleozoic tectonic trends oriented oblique to the Mesozoic Klamath-Sierran continental margin in California

WR Dickinson - 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT Devonian-Mississippian Antler and Permian-Triassic Sonoma orogenic trends
are oriented northeast-southwest across Nevada and California at high angles to the …

Review of upper Paleozoic and lower Mesozoic stratigraphy and depositional environments, central and west Mexico: Constraints on terrane analysis and …

E Centeno-García, TH Anderson… - SPECIAL PAPERS …, 2005 - books.google.com
Reconstructing the geological evolution of central and western Mexico during the end of the
Paleozoic and the beginning of the Mesozoic is very difficult because of a lack of exposures …

Biochronology of Triassic bivalves

CA McRoberts - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2010 - lyellcollection.org
Substantial advances by numerous researchers over the past 20 years have made it
possible to develop a composite biochronological scheme for the Triassic based on the …

Detrital zircon U‐Pb geochronology of Cambrian to Triassic miogeoclinal and eugeoclinal strata of Sonora, Mexico

GE Gehrels, JH Stewart - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred and eighty two individual detrital zircon grains from Cambrian through
Permian miogeoclinal strata, Ordovician eugeoclinal rocks, and Triassic post‐orogenic …

Late Triassic Texas uplift preceding Jurassic opening of the Gulf of Mexico: Evidence from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons

WR Dickinson, GE Gehrels, RJ Stern - Geosphere, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We use U-Pb ages for 2655 individual detrital zircon grains in 30 samples of Upper Triassic
(Carnian–Norian) sandstones of the southwestern USA (our data) and northern Mexico …

La falla Chacalapa en el sur de Oaxaca

G Tolson - Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 2005 - scielo.org.mx
A lo largo de la costa de Oaxaca, entre Puerto Ángel y Santiago Astata, afloran rocas
metamórficas del Complejo Xolapa intrusionadas por rocas ígneas de edad Paleógeno a …

The lower Mesozoic record of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Sonora, México, and its paleogeographic implications

CM González-León, VA Valencia, TF Lawton… - Revista mexicana de …, 2009 - scielo.org.mx
Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology from each of the formations of the Triassic–Lower
Jurassic Barranca and El Antimonio groups of central and northwestern Sonora and from the …

[HTML][HTML] La Megacizalla Mojave-Sonora: la hipótesis, la controversia y el estado actual de conocimiento

RS Molina-Garza, A Iriondo - Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica …, 2005 - scielo.org.mx
El modelo de la megacizalla Mojave-Sonora, el cual implica desplazamiento lateral
izquierdo en el norte de México durante el Jurásico, permanece como una de las ideas más …

Contrasting Proterozoic basement complexes near the truncated margin of Laurentia, northwestern Sonora–Arizona international border region

JA Nourse, WR Premo, A Iriondo, ER Stahl - 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We utilize new geological mapping, conventional isotope dilution–thermal ionization mass
spectrometry (ID-TIMS) and sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb zircon …