TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MCCOY MOUNTAINS FORMATION, SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARIZONA
dc.contributor.advisor | Butler, Robert | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Harding, Lucy Elizabeth, 1953- | |
dc.creator | Harding, Lucy Elizabeth | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-31T18:43:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-31T18:43:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1982 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187528 | |
dc.description.abstract | Poorly preserved fossil wood collected throughout the terrane had been the basis of a Cretaceous age assignment. New age constraints come from paleomagnetic data which fail the fold test at both regional and local levels. These data indicate that the paleomagnetism was produced by a post-folding metamorphic event. The resulting paleomagnetic pole at 58.9°N, 114.6°E falls on the North American apparent polar wander path very near a pole from the Callovian Summerville Formation. These data imply that Callovian is a minimum age for the metamorphism and that the proto1ith is older. | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | The University of Arizona. | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. | en_US |
dc.subject | Geology -- Arizona -- Yuma County. | en_US |
dc.subject | Geology -- California -- Riverside County. | en_US |
dc.subject | Geology, Stratigraphic -- Mesozoic. | en_US |
dc.subject | Geology, Structural. | en_US |
dc.title | TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MCCOY MOUNTAINS FORMATION, SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARIZONA | en_US |
dc.type | text | en_US |
dc.type | Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) | en_US |
dc.contributor.chair | Coney, Peter J. | en_US |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Arizona | en_US |
thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Coney, Peter J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Dickinson, William R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Peirce, H. Wesley | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Davis, George H. | en_US |
dc.identifier.proquest | 8217379 | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | Geosciences | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | Graduate College | en_US |
thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-06-12T02:53:31Z | |
html.description.abstract | Poorly preserved fossil wood collected throughout the terrane had been the basis of a Cretaceous age assignment. New age constraints come from paleomagnetic data which fail the fold test at both regional and local levels. These data indicate that the paleomagnetism was produced by a post-folding metamorphic event. The resulting paleomagnetic pole at 58.9°N, 114.6°E falls on the North American apparent polar wander path very near a pole from the Callovian Summerville Formation. These data imply that Callovian is a minimum age for the metamorphism and that the proto1ith is older. |