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Conglomerate Clast Counts in Oligocene-Miocene Strata North from the Catalina Core Complex to the Gila River Valley, Southeastern Arizona

dc.contributor.authorDickinson, W.R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-29T00:26:59Z
dc.date.available2018-09-29T00:26:59Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationDickinson, W.R., 2008, Conglomerate Clast Counts in Oligocene-Miocene Strata North from the Catalina Core Complex to the Gila River Valley, Southeastern Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-08-C, 34 p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/629279
dc.descriptionTo provide insight into provenance relations for multiple mid-Oligocene to mid-Miocene subbasins (typically half-grabens) dissected by erosion in uplands lying north of the Catalina core complex and west of the San Pedro trough, 136 outcrop counts were made of clast types in tilted conglomerates of the Cloudburst and San Manuel Formations and their lateral equivalents in exposures as far north as the Gila River near Kearny. Clast counts were not made for younger conglomerates of the post-mid-Miocene Quiburis Formation, which fills the San Pedro trough and onlaps flanking uplands (Dickinson, 1998), because Quiburis clast assemblages in all cases match bedrock sources exposed uphill on the modern landscape. By contrast, paleotopography during Cloudburst and San Manuel deposition can only be inferred from local paleocurrent indicators (clast imbrications; figure 39 of Dickinson, 1991, p. 70-71) and clast assemblages in tilted strata. Areas included in this study were the Guild Wash allochthon between the Tortolita and Suizo Mountains, the Star Flat allochthon on the east flank of the Black Mountains, the Black Hills (west of Mammoth), Camp Grant Wash (and Putnam Wash) between the Black Mountains and the Black Hills, multiple drainages of the Tortilla Mountains (Eagle Wash, Jim Thomas Wash, Hackberry Wash, Indian Camp Wash), and Ripsey Wash on the west flank of the Tortilla Mountains.
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCR-08-C
dc.relation.urlhttps://library.azgs.arizona.edu/item/AGCR-1552429818257-27
dc.rightsArizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectArizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
dc.subjectCatalina Core Complex
dc.subjectOligocene-Miocene
dc.subjectArizona
dc.subjectGila River Valley
dc.subjectMiocene Strata
dc.subjectOligocene Strata
dc.subjectpaleotopography
dc.subjectsubbasin
dc.subjectConglomerate Clast Counts
dc.subjectOligocene
dc.subjectMiocene
dc.subjectRipsey Wash
dc.subjectBlack Hills
dc.subjectBlack Mountains
dc.subjectTortolita Mountains
dc.subjectKearney
dc.subjectSan Pedro Trough
dc.subjectpaleocurrent indicators
dc.subjectQuiburis Formation
dc.subjectSan Manuel Formation
dc.subjectCloudburst Formation
dc.subjecthalf-graben
dc.subjectsediment count
dc.subjectclasts
dc.subjectconglomerate
dc.titleConglomerate Clast Counts in Oligocene-Miocene Strata North from the Catalina Core Complex to the Gila River Valley, Southeastern Arizona
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