Regional Geology of Mount Diablo, California: Its Tectonic Evolution on the North America Plate Boundary
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Mount Diablo and the geology of the Central California Coast Ranges are the subject of a volume celebrating the Northern California Geological Society’s 75th anniversary. The breadth of research illustrates the complex Mesozoic to Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the plate boundary. Recent faulting and folding along the eastern edge of the San Andreas system have exposed in the mountain a core of Franciscan accretionary wedge complex faulted against Cretaceous and Cenozoic forearc strata. The Memoir includes papers on structure, stratigraphy, tephrochronology, zircon provenance studies, apatite fission track analyses, and foraminifera and calcareous plankton assemblages tied to Cenozoic climate events. Chapters also address the history of geologic work in the area and the resource development of oil and gas, mercury, coal, and sand, and road aggregate.
Mid-Cenozoic succession on the northeast limb of the Mount Diablo anticline, California—A stratigraphic record of tectonic events in the forearc basin
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Published:September 27, 2021
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Raymond Sullivan, Morgan D. Sullivan, Stephen W. Edwards, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, Rebecca A. Hackworth, Alan L. Deino, 2021. "Mid-Cenozoic succession on the northeast limb of the Mount Diablo anticline, California—A stratigraphic record of tectonic events in the forearc basin", Regional Geology of Mount Diablo, California: Its Tectonic Evolution on the North America Plate Boundary, Raymond Sullivan, Doris Sloan, Jeffrey R. Unruh, David P. Schwartz
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ABSTRACT
The mid-Cenozoic succession in the northeast limb of the Mount Diablo anticline records the evolution of plate interactions at the leading edge of the North America plate. Subduction of the Kula plate and later Farallon plate beneath the North America plate created a marine forearc basin that existed from late Mesozoic to mid-Cenozoic times. In the early Cenozoic, extension on north-south faults formed a graben depocenter on the west side of the basin. Deposition of the Markley Formation of middle to late? Eocene age took place in the late stages of the marine forearc basin. In the Oligocene, the...
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- basins
- California
- Cenozoic
- Coast Ranges
- Contra Costa County California
- depositional environment
- Eocene
- Farallon Plate
- fore-arc basins
- geologic maps
- Kula Plate
- maps
- marine environment
- middle Cenozoic
- middle Eocene
- North American Plate
- Oligocene
- Paleogene
- plate tectonics
- provenance
- Sacramento Basin
- subduction
- succession
- tectonics
- Tertiary
- United States
- upper Cenozoic
- upper Eocene
- Mount Diablo
- Kirker Formation
- Markley Formation
- Sidney Flat Shale Member
- Cierbo Sandstone
- Neroly Sandstone
- Mount Diablo Anticline
- Upper Markley Sandstone Member
- Lower Markley Sandstone Member