Geology of the Willcox north Quadrangle and the southeastern-most Greasewood Mountain Quadrangle, Arizona

Erickson, R.C.

dc.contributor.author	Erickson, R.C.
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-10T02:44:22Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-10T02:44:22Z
dc.date.issued	1988
dc.identifier.citation	Erickson, R., 1988, Geology of the Willcox north Quadrangle and the southeastern-most Greasewood Mountain Quadrangle, Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Miscellaneous Map MM-88-B.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/630731
dc.description	A 1:24,000 scale geologic map of the Willcox north Quadrangle and the southeastern-most Greasewood Mountain Quadrangle, Arizona. sandy sediments of unknown age were deformed and metamorphosed to greenschist facies conditions at ca. 1690 ma (Erickson, 1981) to form the Pinal Schist. The Sommer stock and a large number of mafic bodies were intruded toward the end of this episode and share metamorphic mineralogy and foliation but not lineation with the Pinal units. Garnets in the Pinal in two locations in the Circle I Hills indicate an unusually high metamorphic grade. Probably at some time in the Precambrian the Apache Pass fault formed, causing major lateral offset between the Precambrian terrains of the northern and southern Dos Cabezas mountains (Erickson, 1969). In this quadrangle the faul t is presumed to lie close to the southwestern border of the Dos Cabezas and to pass between the Spike E and Circle I Hills, since the quartzites of the Spike E Hills are like those of the southern Dos Cabezas and the metasediments and metavolcanics of the Circle I Hills are like those of the northern Dos Cabezas. Intrusion of a small breccia stock in the Circle I Hills occurred in latest Cretaceous time correlative with the intrusion of the similar much larger mass in the Dos Cabezas mountains at about 63 ma (Erickson, 1981). The volcanic sequence of Campomocho Draw was erupted in the Tertiary and faulted. The Circle I stock was intruded at 28 rna; intrusion of albite porphyry dikes in the southern Circle I Hills may be related. Hornblende andesite porphyry dikes were intruded into the western Dos Cabezas 35 ma ago, closely followed by intrusion of numerous quartz dikes and POds (Erickson, 1981). In the last 20 ma Basin and Range faulting has blocked out the present ranges.
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Arizona Geological Survey (Tucson, AZ)
dc.relation.ispartofseries	MM-88-B
dc.relation.url	https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/item/AGMM-1552428322453-767
dc.rights	Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
dc.subject	Arizona Geological Survey - Miscellaneous Maps
dc.subject	Proterozoic
dc.subject	cretaceous
dc.subject	Tertiary
dc.subject	Quaternary
dc.subject	Basin and Range Province
dc.subject	Cochise County
dc.subject	Spike E Hills
dc.subject	Campomocho Draw
dc.subject	Circle I Hills
dc.subject	Dos Cabezas
dc.subject	Willcox
dc.subject	geochronology
dc.subject	Pinal Schist
dc.subject	marble
dc.subject	granite
dc.subject	Sommer Stock
dc.subject	andesite
dc.subject	vitrophyre
dc.subject	volcanics
dc.subject	Apache Pass Fault
dc.title	Geology of the Willcox north Quadrangle and the southeastern-most Greasewood Mountain Quadrangle, Arizona
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