Provenance analysis of Jurassic sandstones from the Otlaltepec Basin, southern Mexico; implications for the reconstruction of Pangea breakup
The structural evolution that accompanied the breakup of Pangea during Jurassic time has been constrained in Mexico only at the regional scale on the basis of global plate tectonics and geometric considerations. According to available regional-scale reconstructions, the Jurassic tectonic evolution o...
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| description | The structural evolution that accompanied the breakup of Pangea during Jurassic time has been constrained in Mexico only at the regional scale on the basis of global plate tectonics and geometric considerations. According to available regional-scale reconstructions, the Jurassic tectonic evolution of Mexico was characterized by: (1) anticlockwise rotation of the Yucatan block along NNW-trending dextral faults and (2) sinistral block motions along W- to WNW-trending faults, which are geometrically needed to restore southern and central Mexico to the northwest of its present position during early Mesozoic time and avoid the overlap between North and South America in the reconstruction of Pangea. Reports of W- to WNW-trending sinistral faults that were active in Mexico during Jurassic time are presently few, and the existence, extension, and age of some of these structures have been questioned by many authors.In this work, we present the provenance analysis from a Jurassic clastic succession deposited within the Otlaltepec Basin in southern Mexico. Wholerock sandstone petrography integrated with chemical analysis of detrital-garnet and U-Pb detrital-zircon geochronology documents that the analyzed stratigraphic record was deposited during rapid exhumation of the Totoltepec pluton along the Matanza fault, which is a W-trending sinistral normal fault that extends along the southern boundary of the Otlaltepec Basin. U-Pb zircon ages and biostratigraphic data bracket the age of the Matanza fault between 163.5 ± 1 and 167.5 ± 4 Ma. This indicates that the Matanza fault was involved in the crustal attenuation that accompanied the breakup of Pangea and that sinistral motion of continental blocks along W-trending structures was taking place in southern Mexico as predicted by global plate tectonic reconstructions. |
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| subjects | absolute age Basins Breakup clastic rocks depositional environment faults garnet group Geological faults Jurassic lithofacies lithostratigraphy Matanza Fault Mesozoic Mexico nesosilicates orthosilicates Otlaltepec Basin Otlaltepec Formation paleogeography Pangaea Pangea petrography Piedra Hueca Formation Plate tectonics provenance Radioactive age determination Reconstruction rifting sandstone Sandstones sedimentary basins sedimentary rocks silicates southern Mexico stratigraphic units Stratigraphy Structural geology supercontinents tectonics U/Pb zircon zircon group |
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