Mesozoic Thrusting and Tertiary Detachment Faulting in the Moon Mountains, West-central Arizona

Knapp, J.H.

dc.contributor.author	Knapp, J.H.
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-16T16:46:35Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-16T16:46:35Z
dc.date.issued	2018-09-06
dc.identifier.citation	Knapp, J.H., 2018, Mesozoic Thrusting and Tertiary Detachment Faulting in the Moon Mountains, west-central Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-18-I, 56 p	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/630262
dc.description	The rocks and structures exposed in the Moon Mountains of the Colorado River Indian Reservation, west-central Arizona, record Mesozoic thrusting within the Maria fold and thrust belt, and superimposed Tertiary detachment faulting related to the regional Whipple-Buckskin-Rawhide detachment system. The major structures of the Moon Mountains are (1) the Valenzuela thrust fault, (2) the Moon Mountain detachment fault, and (3) the Copper Peak detachment fault. Lithologies consist primarily of Mesozoic and Tertiary intrusive rocks and crystalline gneisses of Precambrian age, with minor but important exposures of deformed and metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks. A newly-described section of metamorphosed, lower Mesozoic sedimentary rocks, the Valenzuela metasedimentary section, is assigned to the Buckskin Formation (Reynolds et al., 1987) of western Arizona.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Arizona Geological Survey (Tucson, AZ)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	CR-18-I	en_US
dc.relation.url	https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/
dc.rights	Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.	en_US
dc.subject	Buckskin Formation	en_US
dc.subject	detachment fault	en_US
dc.subject	metamorphic core complex	en_US
dc.subject	Copper Peak	en_US
dc.subject	Moon Mountain	en_US
dc.subject	Mesozoic	en_US
dc.subject	Precambrian	en_US
dc.subject	Tertiary	en_US
dc.subject	Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports	en_US
dc.title	Mesozoic Thrusting and Tertiary Detachment Faulting in the Moon Mountains, West-central Arizona	en_US
csdgm.bounding.west	-114.125
csdgm.bounding.east	-114
csdgm.bounding.north	33.875
csdgm.bounding.south	33.75
dc.description.note	The geologic map and cross section that accompanies this report were originally published in the AZGS Contributed Map Series.	en_US
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refterms.dateFOA	2018-10-16T16:46:35Z