Structural Analysis and Chronologic Constraints on Progressive Deformation within the Rincon Mountains, Arizona: Implications for Development of Metamorphic Core Complexes [Memoir (Geological Society of America), 222]

E. Bos Orent G.H. Davis

ISBN 10: 081371222X / ISBN 13: 9780813712222

Published by The Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, 2023

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viii, 125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm. Summary:"The Catalina-Rincon Mountains metamorphic core complex is one of the original type localities of Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes in western North America. In this volume, the authors provide a thorough accounting of the evolution of this shear zone by integrating and synthesizing decades of previous research with new mapping, structural data, and geochronological analyses"-- Provided by publisher.

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• Title: Structural Analysis and Chronologic Constraints on Progressive Deformation within the Rincon Mountains, Arizona: Implications for Development of Metamorphic Core Complexes [Memoir (Geological Society of America), 222]
• Publisher: The Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081371222X
• ISBN 13: 9780813712222
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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The Catalina-Rincon metamorphic core complex (Tucson, Arizona, USA) is a type Cordilleran metamorphic core complex. This volume draws together decades of investigations into the geology of the Rincons, and presents results of multi-scale mapping and structural analysis of the Catalina detachment zone, a superbly exposed crustal-scale shear zone. A structural model for progressive incremental deformation synthesizes geological observations into a kinematic/mechanical framework. To this is added the first substantive application of multi-method geochronology and thermochronology, results of which place the evolution of the detachment zone (from mylonitization through cataclasis to exhumation) into a narrow time window, i.e., from ca. 26 to 17 Ma.