A paleomagnetic transect of the mid-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California, Mexico
-
Published:January 01, 2014
-
CiteCitation
Roberto S. Molina-Garza, Luis A. Delgado-Argote, Harald Böhnel, Elisa Ramírez, Amabel Ortega, Rubén Contreras Flores, 2014. "A paleomagnetic transect of the mid-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith, Baja California, Mexico", Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja California and Southern California, Douglas M. Morton, Fred K. Miller
Download citation file:
- Share
-
Tools
We report structural, paleomagnetic, and magnetic fabric data for mid-Cretaceous plutons of the Peninsular Ranges batholith along a transect at ~30°N latitude. Four plutons in the western sector are characterized by characteristic magnetizations residing in magnetite. In this sector, El Milagro, Aguaje del Burro, La Zarza, and San Telmo plutons yield a combined paleopole at 82.1°N, 169.7°E (K = 137.6, A95 = 7.9°; n = 4–38 sites), which, rotated for closure of the Gulf of California, falls at 79.3°N, 179.5°E, and it is concordant with the North America reference pole. Plutons in the transition zone, between the eastern and...
Figures & Tables
Contents
Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja California and Southern California

GeoRef
- anisotropy
- Baja California
- block structures
- characteristic remanent magnetization
- compression
- Cretaceous
- deformation
- emplacement
- fabric
- faults
- geophysical methods
- geotraverses
- hematite
- intrusions
- magnetic methods
- magnetic properties
- magnetic susceptibility
- magnetite
- magnetization
- Mesozoic
- Mexico
- Middle Cretaceous
- natural remanent magnetization
- North America
- oxides
- paleomagnetism
- Peninsular Ranges Batholith
- plutons
- remanent magnetization
- statistical analysis
- systems
- thrust faults
- tilt