Abstract
The Maria fold-and-thrust belt (MFTB) is a narrow belt of Mesozoic crustal shortening that trends east-west across west central Arizona and adjacent southeastern California. It is characterized by generally south vergent folds and thrusts that commonly displace Proterozoic crystalline rocks over deformed and metamorphosed Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata. The MFTB is cut by a south to southeast trending belt of mid-Tertiary extensional deformation. Extension was characterized by large displacements on low-angle normal faults, known as detachment faults, and by isostatic uplift of mylonitic midcrustal rocks now exposed in metamorphic core complexes. The geometry and style of extensional deformation change along the extensional belt and reveal the influence of the MFTB. Several extensional features are spatially coincident with the root zone of MFTB thrusts. -from Authors
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 539-555 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal of geophysical research |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue number | B1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1990 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geophysics
- Forestry
- Oceanography
- Aquatic Science
- Ecology
- Water Science and Technology
- Soil Science
- Geochemistry and Petrology
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Atmospheric Science
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Space and Planetary Science
- Palaeontology