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    TECTONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIONEER STRUCTURAL COMPLEX, PIONEER MOUNTAINS, CENTRAL IDAHO (CORE, DETACHMENT, EXTENSION).

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    Author
    WUST, STEPHEN LOUIS.
    Issue Date
    1986
    Keywords
    Plate tectonics -- Idaho -- Pioneer Mountains.
    Geology, Structural.
    Advisor
    Dickinson, Bill
    
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    The University of Arizona.
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    The Pioneer Mountains of Idaho expose a lower plate core of Precambrian and Ordovician metasedimentary rocks, which are intruded by Cretaceous and Eocene plutonic bodies. The core is separated by a detachment fault from a surrounding upper plate of Paleozoic and Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic units. The detachment system developed during a Tertiary extensional event which overprinted Paleozoic and Mesozoic east-directed compressional features, and exhibits both brittle and ductile (mylonitic) deformation. Stretching lineations in the mylonite and striations along the detachment surface both cluster around N65W. Composite planar fabrics (s- and c-surfaces) in the mylonite and limited development of a mylonitic front along the NW side of the core both suggest a top-to-the-west sense of shear. Minimum translation is estimated at about 17 km. The Pioneer structural complex is one of a number of metamorphic core complexes present along the North American Cordillera. All exhibit Tertiary extensional deformation, expressed as detachment faults structurally adjacent to ductile mylonitic shear zones. Extension directions, as indicated by stretching lineations within mylonite and striations along detachment faults, fall into regional groups in which the directions are similar in trend throughout each group. Asymmetric fabrics on both small and large scales give senses of shear and indicate that tectonic vergence within each group is directed outward from a central axis. The regional consistency of extension directions implies a regional control of extension in metamorphic core complexes. Much of central Idaho, and possibly a large part of eastern Idaho as well, may be riding on the upper part of an extensive detachment terrane, of which the Pioneer complex exposes the deeper levels. The Pioneer complex, and other core complexes, owes its present elevation to isostatic uplift over an overthickened crustal welt of local scale. Larger-scale uplift may be due to a similar isostatic adjustment over a broad zone of crustal thickening from Mesozoic compressional tectonics and intrusion.
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    doctoral
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    Geosciences
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    University of Arizona
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