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Re-evaluation of exotic gravel and inverted topography at Crooked Ridge, northern Arizona: Relicts of an ancient river of regional extent
A shallow rift basin segmented in space and time: The southern San Luis Basin, Rio Grande rift, northern New Mexico, U.S.A.
Recognition and significance of Upper Devonian fluvial, estuarine, and mixed siliciclastic-carbonate nearshore marine facies in the San Juan Mountains (southwestern Colorado, USA): Multiple incised valleys backfilled by lowstand and transgressive systems tracts
Controls on hydrothermal fluid flow in caldera-hosted settings: Evidence from Lake City caldera, USA
Stratigraphy, petrography, and depositional history of the Ignacio Quartzite and McCracken Sandstone Member of the Elbert Formation, southwestern Colorado, U.S.A.
Magma storage, differentiation, and interaction at Lake City caldera, Colorado, USA
Abstract Large-volume, high-crystallinity, chemically homogeneous ignimbrites, dubbed ‘monotonous intermediates’, provide a unique opportunity to investigate the evolution of crustal magmatic reservoirs. We present the results of hydrothermal experiments on a dacite from Fish Canyon Tuff (FCT) in Colorado (USA), a classic example of a monotonous intermediate deposit, in order to characterize the variations in chemical and physical properties of hydrous dacite magmas as a function of temperature. The experiments (200 MPa, 720–1100°C) span the inferred pre-eruptive conditions of FCT magmas, and are shown to provide the best match to the chemical and physical properties of the erupted magmas at 790±10°C under conditions at or close to water-saturation. The results show the important effect of water content in controlling the chemical and physical evolution of magma, and the contrasted behaviour of water-saturated v. water-undersaturated magmas. In both cases, however, there is a broad interval of temperature (200°C) over which crystal fraction changes little. By recasting this behaviour in terms of enthalpy, rather than temperature, as the independent variable we show that this interval corresponds to a minimum in the change in crystallinity per unit of energy added or subtracted from the system, such that small perturbations to the heat content of the system (e.g. by cooling or new magma injections) results in very little change in magma properties. The crystal content in this interval is 55–65 wt%, which is close to the phenocryst content (40–55 wt%) of monotonous intermediates. We propose that crystal-rich magmas tend to settle in this ‘petrological trap’, changing little in physical and chemical properties over time as the system grows. Petrological trapping enables very large volumes of intermediate magma to accumulate in the shallow crust until such time as the net buoyancy force of these crystal-rich magma is sufficient to overcome the strength of the roof rocks, leading to a potentially very large eruption.
Slidequake Generation versus Viscous Creep at Softrock-landslides: Synopsis of Three Different Scenarios at Slumgullion Landslide, Heumoes Slope, and Super-Sauze Mudslide
Volcanic clasts incorporated in the lower portion of the Tertiary Santa Fe Group sedimentary rocks of the Culebra graben, San Luis Basin, Colorado, provide constraints on the timing of regional tectonic events by provenance determination. Based on currently exposed volcanic terrains, possible clast sources include Spanish Peaks and Mount Mestas to the east, the San Juan volcanic field to the west, and the Thirtynine Mile volcanic field, a remnant of the Central Colorado volcanic field, to the north and east of the San Luis Basin. Provenance was determined by a variety of geochemical, mineral chemical, and geochronologic data. Large porphyritic Santa Fe Group volcanic clasts are potassic with a wide compositional range from potassic trachybasalt to rhyolite. The whole-rock chemistry of the Culebra graben clasts is similar to that of the Thirtynine Mile and San Juan volcanic fields. Culebra graben amphibole and biotite chemistry is generally consistent with that of rocks of the San Juan volcanic field, but not with Spanish Peaks samples. Trace-element data of Culebra graben volcanic clasts overlap with those of the San Juan and Thirtynine Mile volcanic fields, but differ from those of the Mount Mestas. Thermobarometric calculations using mineral chemistry suggest that many Culebra graben rocks underwent a three-stage crystallization history: ~1120 °C at 7–10 kbar, ~1100 °C at 2.3–4.6 kbar, and hornblende formation ~800 °C at 3 kbar. Within the Culebra graben clasts, zircon rim U-Pb geochronologic systematics as well as amphibole and biotite 40 Ar/ 39 Ar plateau data yield ages ranging from 36 to 29 Ma. These ages are consistent with ages of the Thirtynine Mile volcanic field (36–27 Ma) and the Conejos Formation of the San Juan volcanic field (35–29 Ma), but predate Spanish Peaks (ca. 27–21 Ma) and Mount Mestas (ca. 25 Ma). Based on these data, Spanish Peaks and Mount Mestas are excluded as potential source areas for the Santa Fe Group volcanic clasts in the Culebra graben. The San Juan volcanic field is also an unlikely source due to the distance from the depositional site, the inconsistent paleo-current directions, and the pressure-temperature conditions of the rocks. The most likely scenario is that the Central Colorado volcanic field originally extended proximal to the current location of the Culebra graben and local delivery of volcanic clasts was from the north and northeast prior to the uplift of the Culebra Range and Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Abstract The Southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field contains widespread andesite and dacitic lavas erupted from central volcanoes; associated with these are ~26 regional ignimbrites (each 150–5000 km 3 ) emplaced from 37 to 23 Ma, source calderas as much as 75 km across, and subvolcanic plutons. Exposed plutons vary in composition and size from small roof-zone exposures of porphyritic andesite and dacite to batholith-scale granitoids. Calderas and plutons are enclosed by one of the largest-amplitude gravity lows in North America. The gravity low, interpreted as defining the extent of a largely concealed low-density silicic batholith complex, encloses the overall area of ignimbrite calderas, most of which lack individual geophysical expression. Initial ignimbrite eruptions from calderas aligned along the Sawatch Range at 37–34 Ma progressed southwestward, culminating in peak eruptions in the San Juan Mountains at 30–27 Ma. This field guide focuses on diverse features of previously little-studied ignimbrites and caldera sources in the northeastern San Juan region, which record critical temporal and compositional transitions in this distinctive eastern Cordilleran example of Andean-type continental-margin volcanism.
Geophysical study of the San Juan Mountains batholith complex, southwestern Colorado
Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis
The use of fluoride as a natural tracer in water and the relationship to geological features: examples from the Animas River Watershed, San Juan Mountains, Silverton, Colorado
Quaternary incision rates and drainage evolution of the Uncompahgre and Gunnison Rivers, western Colorado, as calibrated by the Lava Creek B ash
Eruptive and noneruptive calderas, northeastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Where did the ignimbrites come from?
The Magma Reservoirs That Feed Supereruptions
Middle to late Cenozoic geology, hydrography, and fish evolution in the American Southwest
An evaluation of the poorly understood Cenozoic hydrologic history of the American Southwest using combined geological and biological data yields new insights with implications for tectonic evolution. The Mesozoic Cordilleran orogen next to the continental margin of southwestern North America probably formed the continental divide. Mountain building migrated eastward to cause uplift of the Rocky Mountains during the Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary Laramide orogeny. Closed drainage basins that developed between the two mountain belts trapped lake waters containing fish of Atlantic affinity. Oligocene-Miocene tectonic extension fragmented the western mountain belt and created abundant closed basins that gradually filled with sediments and became conduits for dispersal of fishes of both Pacific and Atlantic affinity. Abrupt arrival of the modern Colorado River to the Mojave-Sonora Desert region at ca. 5 Ma provided a new conduit for fish dispersal. Great dissimilarities in modern fish fauna, including differences in their mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), indicate that late Miocene runoff from the Colorado Plateau did not flow down the Platte or Rio Grande, or through the Lake Bonneville Basin. Fossil fishes from the upper Miocene part of the Bidahochi Formation on the Colorado Plateau have characteristics that reflect a habitat of large, swift-moving waters, and they are closely related to fossil fishes associated with the Snake and Sacramento Rivers. This evidence suggests that influx of fishes from the ancestral Snake River involved a major drainage, not merely small headwater transfers.
Pacing the post–Last Glacial Maximum demise of the Animas Valley glacier and the San Juan Mountain ice cap, Colorado
Incremental assembly and prolonged consolidation of Cordilleran magma chambers: Evidence from the Southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field
A community effort to construct a gravity database for the United States and an associated Web portal
Potential field data (gravity and magnetic measurements) are both useful and cost-effective tools for many geologic investigations. Significant amounts of these data are traditionally in the public domain. A new magnetic database for North America was released in 2002, and as a result, a cooperative effort between government agencies, industry, and universities to compile an upgraded digital gravity anomaly database, grid, and map for the conterminous United States was initiated and is the subject of this paper. This database is being crafted into a data system that is accessible through a Web portal. This data system features the database, software tools, and convenient access. The Web portal will enhance the quality and quantity of data contributed to the gravity database that will be a shared community resource. The system's totally digital nature ensures that it will be flexible so that it can grow and evolve as new data, processing procedures, and modeling and visualization tools become available. Another goal of this Web-based data system is facilitation of the efforts of researchers and students who wish to collect data from regions currently not represented adequately in the database. The primary goal of upgrading the United States gravity database and this data system is to provide more reliable data that support societal and scientific investigations of national importance. An additional motivation is the international intent to compile an enhanced North American gravity database, which is critical to understanding regional geologic features, the tectonic evolution of the continent, and other issues that cross national boundaries.