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Thermal architecture of the Salmon River suture zone, Idaho, USA: Implications for the structural evolution of a ductile accretionary complex during arc-continent collision
Late Miocene or older canyon incision in the northern U.S. Cordillera shown by erosion rates, incision models, and basalt flow ages
The jagged western edge of Laurentia: The role of inherited rifted lithospheric structure in subsequent tectonism in the Pacific Northwest
ABSTRACT The rifted Precambrian margin of western Laurentia is hypothesized to have consisted of a series of ~330°-oriented rift segments and ~060°-oriented transform segments. One difficulty with this idea is that the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr i = 0.706 isopleth, which is inferred to coincide with the trace of this rifted margin, is oriented approximately N-S along the western edge of the Idaho batholith and E-W in northern Idaho; the transition between the N-S– and E-W–oriented segments occurs near Orofino, Idaho. We present new paleomagnetic and geochronologic evidence that indicates that the area around Orofino, Idaho, has rotated ~30° clockwise since ca. 85 Ma. Consequently, we interpret the current N-S–oriented margin as originally oriented ~330°, consistent with a Precambrian rift segment, and the E-W margin as originally oriented ~060°, consistent with a transform segment. Independent geochemical and seismic evidence corroborates this interpretation of rotation of Blue Mountains terranes and adjacent Laurentian block. Left-lateral motion along the Lewis and Clark zone during Late Cretaceous–Paleogene time likely accommodated this rotation. The clockwise rotation partially explains the presence of the Columbia embayment, as Laurentian lithosphere was located further west. Restoration of the rotation results in a reconstructed Neoproterozoic margin with a distinct promontory and embayment, and it constrains the rifting direction as SW oriented. The rigid Precambrian rift-transform corner created a transpressional syntaxis during middle Cretaceous deformation associated with the western Idaho and Ahsahka shear zones. During the late Miocene to present, the Precambrian rift-transform corner has acted as a fulcrum, with the Blue Mountains terranes as the lever arm. This motion also explains the paired fan-shaped contractional deformation of the Yakima fold-and-thrust belt and fan-shaped extensional deformation in the Hells Canyon extensional province.
Constraints on the post-orogenic tectonic history along the Salmon River suture zone from low-temperature thermochronology, western Idaho and eastern Oregon
Late Miocene rejuvenation of central Idaho landscape evolution: A case for surface processes driven by plume-lithosphere interaction
Prolonged metamorphism during long-lived terrane accretion: Sm-Nd garnet and U-Pb zircon geochronology and pressure-temperature paths from the Salmon River suture zone, west-central Idaho, USA
Tectonic evolution of the Syringa embayment in the central North American Cordilleran accretionary boundary
Kinematic and vorticity analyses of the western Idaho shear zone, USA
Construction and preservation of batholiths in the northern U.S. Cordillera
Abstract The Channeled Scabland of east-central Washington comprises a complex of anastomosing fluvial channels that were eroded by Pleistocene megaflooding into the basalt bedrock and overlying sediments of the Columbia Plateau and Columbia Basin regions of eastern Washington State, U.S.A. The cataclysmic flooding produced huge coulees (dry river courses), cataracts, streamlined loess hills, rock basins, butte-and-basin scabland, potholes, inner channels, broad gravel deposits, and immense gravel bars. Giant current ripples (fluvial dunes) developed in the coarse gravel bedload. In the 1920s, J Harlen Bretz established the cataclysmic flooding origin for the Channeled Scabland, and Joseph Thomas Pardee subsequently demonstrated that the megaflooding derived from the margins of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, notably from ice-dammed glacial Lake Missoula, which had formed in western Montana and northern Idaho. More recent research, to be discussed on this field trip, has revealed the complexity of megaflooding and the details of its history. To understand the scabland one has to throw away textbook treatments of river work. —J. Hoover Mackin, as quoted in Bretz et al. (1956, p. 960)
Abstract The late Mesozoic accretionary boundary in west-central Idaho has played a critical role in tectonic models proposed for the northwestern U.S. Cordillera. From west-to-east, major elements include the Permian to Jurassic Wallowa island-arc terrane, a poorly understood transition zone consisting of the Riggins Group assemblage and deformation belt along the west side of the island arc-continent boundary, Late Jurassic to Cretaceous arc-continent boundary, and Precambrian North American margin intruded by the Cretaceous–Paleogene Idaho batholith. We focus on the transition zone in the area between White Bird and Riggins, Idaho, which includes a contractional belt in variously deformed and metamorphosed rocks of island-arc affinity. We propose that the rocks of the entire transition zone, including those originally defined as the Riggins Group, are likely of Wallowa terrane origin and/or related basinal assemblages. Ultramafic rocks in the transition zone are possibly related to a Jurassic or Cretaceous basinal assemblage that includes the Squaw Creek Schist of the Riggins Group. Our recent work addresses the kinematic history of structures in the contractional belt. The belt was reactivated in the Neogene to accommodate mostly brittle normal faulting that strongly influenced preservation of the Miocene Columbia River Basalt Group at this location along the eastern margin of the flood basalt province. This field guide provides a road log for examining the geology between Moscow and New Meadows, Idaho, along U.S. Highway 95.
Hells Canyon to the Bitterroot front: A transect from the accretionary margin eastward across the Idaho batholith
Abstract This field guide covers geology across north-central Idaho from the Snake River in the west across the Bitterroot Mountains to the east to near Missoula, Montana. The regional geology includes a much-modified Mesozoic accretionary boundary along the western side of Idaho across which allochthonous Permian to Cretaceous arc complexes of the Blue Mountains province to the west are juxtaposed against autochthonous Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic North American metasedimentary assemblages intruded by Cretaceous and Paleogene plutons to the east. The accretionary boundary turns sharply near Orofino, Idaho, from north-trending in the south to west-trending, forming the Syringa embayment, then disappears westward under Miocene cover rocks of the Columbia River Basalt Group. The Coolwater culmination east of the Syringa embayment exposes allochthonous rocks well east of an ideal steep suture. North and east of it is the Bitterroot lobe of the Idaho batholith, which intruded Precambrian continental crust in the Cretaceous and Paleocene to form one of the classical North American Cordilleran batholiths. Eocene Challis plutons, products of the Tertiary western U.S. ignimbrite flare-up, intrude those batholith rocks. This guide describes the geology in three separate road logs: (1) The Wallowa terrane of the Blue Mountains province from White Bird, Idaho, west into Hells Canyon and faults that complicate the story; (2) the Mesozoic accretionary boundary from White Bird to the South Fork Clearwater River east of Grangeville and then north to Kooskia, Idaho; and (3) the bend in the accretionary boundary, the Coolwater culmination, and the Bitterroot lobe of the Idaho batholith along Highway 12 east from near Lewiston, Idaho, to Lolo, Montana.
Age and structure of the Crevice pluton: overlapping orogens in west-central Idaho?
Tectonomagmatic evolution of distinct arc terranes in the Blue Mountains Province, Oregon and Idaho
Abstract Recent mapping, U-Pb zircon geochronology, trace-element geochemistry, and tracer isotope geochemistry of plutonic and volcanic rocks in the Wallowa and Olds Ferry terranes of the Blue Mountains Province yield new insights into their tectonic evolution and pre-accretion history. Igneous rocks of the Wallowa arc terrane formed in two magmatic episodes of contrasting duration and geochemical characteristics. Magmatism in the first episode lasted for at least 20 Ma (ca. 268–248 Ma), spanning the Middle Permian to the Early Triassic and was of generally calc-alkaline affinity. Rock units associated with this episode include the Hunsaker Creek and Windy Ridge formations of the Wallowa terrane, as well as potentially equivalent tonalite and diorite plutonic rocks in the Cougar Creek Complex and related basement exposures, which show midcrustal levels of the terrane. The second episode of magmatism in the Wallowa arc was remarkably brief (U-Pb zircon dates range from 229.43 ± 0.08 Ma to 229.13 ± 0.45 Ma) and dominated by mafic to intermediate compositions of tholeiitic affinity. Rock units associated with the second episode may include the Wild Sheep Creek and Doyle Creek formations, as well as ubiquitous dikes and plutons in the Cougar Creek Complex and similar basement exposures. After 229 Ma, the Wallowa arc apparently became dormant. The record of igneous activity in the Olds Ferry arc contrasts with that of the Wallowa in its age range and the continuity of calc-alkaline magmatism. Radiometric ages and stratigraphic field relationships allow the magmatic history of the Olds Ferry terrane to be divided into at least three cycles separated by brief hiatuses and collectively spanning the late Middle Triassic through the Early Jurassic (ca. 237– 187 Ma). Rock units related to these episodes are divided by unconformities, and they include the Brownlee pluton, lower Huntington Formation, and upper Huntington Formation. Magmatic activity in the Olds Ferry arc may have persisted until at least 174 Ma, based on the presence of volcanic ash horizons in the lower portion of the overlying Weatherby Formation of the Izee basin. All cycles of Olds Ferry magmatism display generally calc-alkaline affinity. The contrasting magmatic histories of the Wallowa and Olds Ferry arc terranes provide the basis for at least two conclusions. First, these arcs formed as separate tectonic entities, rather than as a single composite arc. Second, progressive closure of the ocean basin between the arcs in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic was related to continued subduction beneath the Olds Ferry arc, but the Wallowa arc was apparently dormant during much of that interval.
ABSTRACT The Salmon River suture zone in west-central Idaho is a steep ocean-continent plate boundary separating Paleozoic-Mesozoic island-arc terranes and the ancestral western Laurentian margin that characterizes much of the central North American Cordillera. In the Riggins region, the most complete record of arc-continent collision and subsequent modification of the accretionary boundary is exposed because of the lower abundance of Cretaceous plutonism as compared to exposures of the boundary regionally along strike, and the deep degree of erosion along the Salmon River Canyon. Using recent mapping, microtectonic analysis, geochronological data, and structural models, this field trip explores the time-transgressive structures currently exposed across the Salmon River suture zone from the eastern foothills of the Seven Devils Mountains into the Salmon River Canyon. The Salmon River suture zone contains a Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, west-vergent thrust belt that is overprinted along its eastern extent by the Late Cretaceous, transpressional western Idaho shear zone and Late Cretaceous(?) and Cenozoic ductile-brittle extensional structures. A distinct amalgamation of metavol-canogenic and metasedimentary rocks characterizes the thrust belt and includes the (1) northeastern Wallowa terrane, (2) western Salmon River belt, formally grouped with the Wallowa terrane, and (3) eastern Salmon River belt, known locally as the Riggins Group and Pollock Mountain Amphibolite. The western Idaho shear zone overprints the easternmost rocks and structures associated with the eastern Salmon River belt. It also contains heterogeneous units of tonalite, trondhjemite, and grano-diorite orthogneiss, as well as individual tonalite, granodiorite, and granite plutons that display a gradation and partitioning of deformation and strain internally within the shear zone. East of the magmatic injection zone located along the arc-continent boundary, Laurentian continental metasedimentary rocks and tonalite and granodio-rite plutons occupy the eastern portions of both the shear zone and larger suture zone. Geochronologic data, obtained largely from metaplutonic rocks in the McCall region south of the Riggins region, provide the temporal resolution to constrain current tectonic models proposed for Salmon River suture zone evolution.