Climatic controls on nonmarine depositional sequences in the Albuquerque Basin, Rio Grande rift, north-central New Mexico

Sean D. Connell; Gary A. Smith; John W. Geissman; William C. McIntosh

doi:10.1130/2013.2494(15)

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New Perspectives on Rio Grande Rift Basins: From Tectonics to Groundwater

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Geological Society of America

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494

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April 01, 2013

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Climatic controls on nonmarine depositional sequences in the Albuquerque Basin, Rio Grande rift, north-central New Mexico

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Sean D. Connell

New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources–Albuquerque Office, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 2808 Central Ave. SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA, and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03 2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA

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Gary A. Smith

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03 2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA

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John W. Geissman

Department of Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA

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William C. McIntosh

New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA

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April 01, 2013

We investigated a Plio-Pleistocene alluvial succession in the Albuquerque Basin of the Rio Grande rift in New Mexico using geomorphic, stratigraphic, sedimentologic, geochronologic, and magnetostratigraphic data. New ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age determinations and magnetic-polarity stratigraphy refine the ages of the synrift Santa Fe Group. The Pliocene Ceja Formation lies on the distal hanging-wall ramp across much of the Albuquerque Basin. The Ceja onlapped and buried a widespread, Upper Miocene erosional paleosurface by 3.0 Ma. Sediment accumulation rates in the Ceja Formation decreased after 3.0 Ma and the Ceja formed broad sheets of amalgamated channel deposits that prograded into the...

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