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    Connection between igneous activity and extension in the central Mojave metamorphic core complex, California

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    1995-06-10
    Author
    Walker, J. Douglas
    Fletcher, John M.
    Fillmore, Robert P.
    Martin, Mark W.
    Taylor, Wanda J.
    Glazner, Allen F.
    Bartley, John M.
    Publisher
    American Geophysical Union
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    Abstract
    The development of metamorphic core complexes and associated low-angle detachment faults commonly is intimately associated with synextensional igneous activity. In most areas studied to date, the relation of magmatism to extension is obscured by imprecise dating and by the overprint of later tectonic events. We present data from the early Miocene central Mojave metamorphic core complex (CMMCC) which indicate that extension was accompanied by igneous activity, as reflected by prekinematic, synkinematic, and postkinematic plutons and coeval volcanic rocks deposited in the associated extensional basins. The principal intrusion is an early Miocene granite pluton exposed in outcrops across an area greater than 400 km2. Dikes adjacent to the pluton are common in the Mitchel Range, at The Buttes, and at Fremont Peak. The overall orientation of the pluton and associated dikes is west-northwest, roughly perpendicular to the extension direction. Results of U-Pb analyses on zircon from two pluton and two dike samples yield ages of 20 to 23 Ma. Two other dike samples yield inconclusive results. Synextensional basins formed by detachment faulting during the core complex development. Rocks in these basins compose the Jackhammer and Pickhandle formations and filled an elongate, NW trending trough more than 50 km long. The 40Ar/39Ar ages for tuff beds are as old as 23.8±0.3 Ma near the base of the lower Pickhandle Formation and as young as 21.3±0.5 Ma in the uppermost lower Pickhandle. Hence volcanism and plutonism are coeval. The diversity of intrusive relations relative to the timing and development of the mylonitic fabric in the CMMCC precludes any simple cause-and-effect relationship between magmatism and extensional deformation. Rather, magmatism and extension may have been localized at a releasing bend in a transfer-fault system which links extension in the CMMCC with extension in the Colorado River area to the east.
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    This is the published version. Copyright 1976 American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17128
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1029/94JB03132
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    Walker, J. D., J. M. Fletcher, R. P. Fillmore, M. W. Martin, W. J. Taylor, A. F. Glazner, and J. M. Bartley (1995), Connection between igneous activity and extension in the central Mojave metamorphic core complex, California, J. Geophys. Res., 100(B6), 10477–10494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/94JB03132.

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