Evidence for multiple intrusion and deformation within the Santa Catalina-Rincon-Tortolita crystalline complex, southeastern Arizona.

S. B. Keith, Stephen Reynolds, P. E. Damon, M. Shafiqullah, D. E. Livingston, P. D. Pushkar

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Abstract

The authors treat in greater detail a portion of the zone of complexes described by Banks (preceding abstract). Various rocks within the Santa Catalina-Rincon-Tortolita crystalline complex can be correlated with rocks inside and locally outside the complex by field relations and lithological, trace-element, and isotopic analyses. Deformed Precambrian, Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cainozoic rocks all occur within the complex, but its geology is dominated by a series of (?)Late Cretaceous to Middle Tertiary plutonic and deformational episodes. There is a 6-page appendix on nomenclature for the plutonic rocks of the complex.A.P.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCordilleran metamorphic core complexes
EditorsM.D. Crittenden Jr, P.J. Coney, G.H. Davis
PublisherMemoir of the Geological Society of America, 153
Pages217-267
Number of pages51
StatePublished - 1980
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Environmental Science

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