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Age and deposition of the Fort Crittenden Formation: A window into Late Cretaceous Laramide and Cenozoic tectonics in southeastern Arizona

Emilia A. Caylor, Barbara Carrapa, Kurt Sundell, Peter G. DeCelles, Joshua M. Smith
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 27 January 2021
GSA Bulletin (2021) 133 (9-10): 1996–2016.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B35808.1
...Emilia A. Caylor; Barbara Carrapa; Kurt Sundell; Peter G. DeCelles; Joshua M. Smith Abstract The Upper Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation exposed in the Santa Rita and Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona is a syntectonic deposit that has been associated with Laramide tectonic activity...
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Photographs show common lithofacies of the <span class="search-highlight">Fort</span> <span class="search-highlight">Crittenden</span> <span class="search-highlight">Formation</span> in the...

Photographs show common lithofacies of the Fort Crittenden Formation in the...

Published: 27 January 2021
Figure 5. Photographs show common lithofacies of the Fort Crittenden Formation in the Huachuca Mountains in the (A–B) conglomerate member and the (C–D) upper shale member. See Table 1 for lithofacies description and interpretation. Lithofacies descriptions: Fsm—massive siltstone or paleosol; Sm
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Detailed stratigraphic sections of members of the <span class="search-highlight">Fort</span> <span class="search-highlight">Crittenden</span> <span class="search-highlight">Formation</span>...

Detailed stratigraphic sections of members of the Fort Crittenden Formation...

Published: 27 January 2021
Figure 6. Detailed stratigraphic sections of members of the Fort Crittenden Formation in the Santa Rita Mountains are shown: (A) the lower red conglomerate member, (B) the brown conglomerate member, and (C) the upper red conglomerate member. In the Huachuca Mountains: (D) the conglomerate
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Photographs show common lithofacies of the <span class="search-highlight">Fort</span> <span class="search-highlight">Crittenden</span> <span class="search-highlight">Formation</span> in the...

Photographs show common lithofacies of the Fort Crittenden Formation in the...

Published: 27 January 2021
Figure 4. Photographs show common lithofacies of the Fort Crittenden Formation in the Santa Rita Mountains in the (A–E) lower red conglomerate, (F) brown conglomerate, and (G and H) upper red conglomerate members. See Table 1 for lithofacies description and interpretation. Lithofacies
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(A) Two-dimensional (2-D) multidimensional scaling (MDS) results of detrita...

(A) Two-dimensional (2-D) multidimensional scaling (MDS) results of detrita...

Published: 27 January 2021
and disparities. The low stress level of 0.027 indicates a reasonable transformation using the component of the Cross-correlation coefficient. Circles indicate samples of the Fort Crittenden Formation from the Santa Rita Mountains (n = 5), and squares indicate samples from the Huachuca Mountains (n = 2). Samples
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Best fit time–temperature paths from inverse modeling using QTQt are shown....

Best fit time–temperature paths from inverse modeling using QTQt are shown....

Published: 27 January 2021
in the lower red conglomerate member of the Fort Crittenden Formation in the Santa Rita Mountains. The box outlined in black (top left) indicates the start time used in this model, which is the detrital zircon maximum depositional age at the top of the Fort Crittenden Formation (ca. 76 Ma). Dotted black lines
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(A) Outset geologic map of southeastern Arizona shows boxes around inset ge...

(A) Outset geologic map of southeastern Arizona shows boxes around inset ge...

Published: 27 January 2021
Figure 3. (A) Outset geologic map of southeastern Arizona shows boxes around inset geologic maps, detrital zircon, igneous U-Pb, and thermochronologic sample locations. Inset geologic maps of the study areas with locations of measured sections of the Fort Crittenden Formation and samples
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Paleogeographic reconstruction shows Late Cretaceous sediment transport in ...

Paleogeographic reconstruction shows Late Cretaceous sediment transport in ...

Published: 27 January 2021
Figure 11. Paleogeographic reconstruction shows Late Cretaceous sediment transport in local depositional centers in the Huachuca Mountains (A–B) and the Santa Rita Mountains (B–C) resulting in deposition of the Fort Crittenden Formation. The geologic map depicts the detrital zircon signature
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Comparison of various interpretations and data to our proposed Laramide oro...

Comparison of various interpretations and data to our proposed Laramide oro...

Published: 01 March 2017
Mexico (USA) ( Clinkscales and Lawton, 2014 ): white diamond—Cocóspera Formation (Turonian); pink diamond—Escalante Formation; blue diamond—Fort Crittenden Formation (Campanian); red diamond—Ringbone Formation (Campanian); orange diamond—Lobo Formation (Paleocene–Eocene); black diamond—Love Ranch
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Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Geology of the New Madrid Seismic Zone

Roy B. Van Arsdale, Robin K. TenBrink
Published: 01 April 2000
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2000) 90 (2): 345–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0119990088
... Breastworks Formation, the Fort Pillow Sand, and the Flour Island Formation. The Old Breastworks Formation is a 95-m-thick clayey silt beneath Shelby County (Hosman, 1966) that grades to a silty clay in the New Madrid test well ( Frederiksen et al., 1982 ) and pinches out northward beneath the town of New...
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A robust age model for the Cryogenian Pocatello Formation of southeastern Idaho (northwestern USA) from tandem in situ and isotope dilution U-Pb dating of volcanic tuffs and epiclastic detrital zircons

Vincent H. Isakson, Mark D. Schmitz, Carol M. Dehler, Francis A. Macdonald, W. Adolph Yonkee
Journal: Geosphere
Published: 18 February 2022
Geosphere (2022) 18 (2): 825–849.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02437.1
... Utah and southeastern Idaho (western USA) includes pre-, syn- and post-glacial Cryogenian strata ( Crittenden et al., 1971 ; Link et al., 1993 ; Yonkee et al., 2014 ). Diamictite-bearing strata within the Pocatello Formation of southeastern Idaho and correlative Perry Canyon Formation in northern...
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Laramide structure of southeastern Arizona: Role of basement-cored uplifts in shallow-angle subduction

Daniel A. Favorito, Eric Seedorff
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 20 July 2021
GSA Bulletin (2022) 134 (3-4): 989–1017.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B35894.1
... and erosion associated with Laramide reverse faults and mainly consist of the Cascabel and Fort Crittenden Formations (e.g., Hayes, 1987 ; Goodlin and Mark, 1987 ; Caylor et al., 2021 ). East-directed flat-slab subduction beneath the Cordillera ( Fig. 1 ) is typically invoked to explain magmatic...
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Aeromagnetic Interpretations of the Crittenden County Fault Zone

Christopher Marlow, Christine Powell, Randel Cox
Published: 02 December 2020
Seismological Research Letters (2021) 92 (1): 494–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200209
...Christopher Marlow; Christine Powell; Randel Cox Abstract The Crittenden County fault zone (CCFZ) is a potentially active fault zone located within 25 km of Memphis, Tennessee, and poses a significant seismic hazard to the region. Previous research has associated the fault zone with basement faults...
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Stratigraphy and structure of the Eocene Memphis Sand above the eastern margin of the Reelfoot rift in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, USA

Richard V. Martin, Roy B. Van Arsdale
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 July 2017
GSA Bulletin (2017) 129 (7-8): 970–996.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31439.1
... Breastworks, Fort Pillow Sand, and Flour Island Formations ( Fig. 3 ). In northern Mississippi, the Wilcox is subdivided into four formations ( Dockery, 1996 ). These are, in ascending order, the Paleocene Nanafalia and Tuscahoma Formations and the Eocene Bashi and Hatchetigbee Formations. The Paleocene...
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Faulting along the Southeastern Margin of the Reelfoot Rift in Northwestern Tennessee Revealed in Deep Seismic-reflection Profiles

Shane Parrish, Roy Van Arsdale
Published: 01 November 2004
Seismological Research Letters (2004) 75 (6): 784–793.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.75.6.784
..., and Shelby Counties, Tennessee, by Martin and Van Arsdale ( 2004 ). Martin and Van Arsdale document fault displacement of the Cook Mountain Formation ( Figure 2 ) that locally appears to be the up-section continuation of faults identified in seismic-reflection line 144E ( Figure 1 ) of this study...
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Shear-wave Velocities of the Post-Paleozoic Sediments across the Upper Mississippi Embayment

Ron Street, Edward W. Woolery, Jer-Ming Chiu
Published: 01 May 2004
Seismological Research Letters (2004) 75 (3): 390–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.75.3.390
... of the Crittenden County fault zone between 901/4° and 90½°W used 2,134 m/s for the RMS P -wave velocity to the top of the bedrock, which agrees reasonably well with our RMS velocity estimates ( Figure 10C ). The reflections and RMS P -wave velocities corresponding to the tops of the Fort Pillow Formation...
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Possible Fault Communication between the Memphis Sand Aquifer and the Mississippi River

Richard V. Martin, Roy B. Van Arsdale, Valarie J. Harrison
Published: 28 March 2023
Environmental & Engineering Geoscience (2023) 29 (2): 105–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/EEG-D-22-00050
... Sand aquifer ( Graham and Parks, 1986 ). Underlying the Memphis Sand, there is the Flour Island Formation. This generally silty clay unit is the aquitard beneath the Memphis aquifer, which in turn overlies the Fort Pillow Sand aquifer. The Eocene Fort Pillow aquifer is the deepest aquifer in west...
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Evidence for a Late Cretaceous to Paleogene basement-involved retroarc wedge in the southern U.S. Cordillera: A case study from the northern Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona

James B. Chapman, Christopher Clinkscales, Adam Trzinski, Michael Daniel
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 13 November 2024
GSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (3-4): 1827–1842.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B37877.1
... of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth , v. 124 , p. 2102 – 2123 , https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016888 . Caylor , E.A. , Carrapa , B. , Sundell , K. , DeCelles , P.G. , and Smith , J.M. , 2021 , Age and deposition of the Fort Crittenden Formation: A window into Late Cretaceous...
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Temporal and Spatial Relations Between Porphyry Copper Deposits and Crustal Shortening: Insights from the Laramide Arc of Arizona and New Mexico

Daniel A. Favorito, Eric Seedorff
Journal: Economic Geology
Published: 01 September 2024
Economic Geology (2024) 119 (6): 1261–1288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.5099
... is consistent with the ages of the porphyry systems in the Pima district and shortening in the Santa Rita Mountains to the west. Shortening there is related to the deposition of the synorogenic Fort Crittenden Formation, recently dated by Caylor et al. ( 2021 ) at ~83 to 76 Ma. However, a ~69 Ma tuff within...
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Newly Recognized Quaternary Surface Faulting and Folding Peripheral to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Central United States, and Implications for Restraining Bend Models of Intraplate Seismic Zones

Christopher A. Vanderlip, Randel Tom Cox, Daniel Larsen, Jeffrey Mitchell, James B. Harris, Cooper S. Cearley
Published: 01 January 2021
The Journal of Geology (2021) 129 (1): 77–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/713686
... greatest principal stress direction (Mazzotti and Townend 2010 ). Star indicates New Madrid, Missouri, and box shows the location of figure 1 B . The location of the Fort Pillow test well (FPW) is indicated by the white dot (see “Stratigraphy”). AF = Axial fault; BHL = Bootheel lineament; CCFZ...
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