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Tectonic Style and Deformational Environment in the Eagle-Southern Quitman Mountains, Western Trans-Pecos Texas D New Mexico Geological Society Downloaded from: http://nmgs.nmt.edu/publications/guidebooks/31 Tectonic style and deformational environment in the Eagle-Southern Quitman Mountains, Western Trans-Pecos Texas D. F. Reaser and James R. Underwood Jr., 1980, pp. 123-130 in: Trans Pecos Region (West Texas), Dickerson, P. W.; Hoffer, J. M.; Callender, J. F.; [eds.], New Mexico Geological Society 31st Annual Fall Field Conference Guidebook, 308 p. This is one of many related papers that were included in the 1980 NMGS Fall Field Conference Guidebook. Annual NMGS Fall Field Conference Guidebooks Every fall since 1950, the New Mexico Geological Society (NMGS) has held an annual Fall Field Conference that explores some region of New Mexico (or surrounding states). Always well attended, these conferences provide a guidebook to participants. Besides detailed road logs, the guidebooks contain many well written, edited, and peer-reviewed geoscience papers. These books have set the national standard for geologic guidebooks and are an essential geologic reference for anyone working in or around New Mexico. Free Downloads NMGS has decided to make peer-reviewed papers from our Fall Field Conference guidebooks available for free download. Non-members will have access to guidebook papers two years after publication. Members have access to all papers. This is in keeping with our mission of promoting interest, research, and cooperation regarding geology in New Mexico. However, guidebook sales represent a significant proportion of our operating budget. Therefore, only research papers are available for download. Road logs, mini-papers, maps, stratigraphic charts, and other selected content are available only in the printed guidebooks. Copyright Information Publications of the New Mexico Geological Society, printed and electronic, are protected by the copyright laws of the United States. No material from the NMGS website, or printed and electronic publications, may be reprinted or redistributed without NMGS permission. Contact us for permission to reprint portions of any of our publications. One printed copy of any materials from the NMGS website or our print and electronic publications may be made for individual use without our permission. Teachers and students may make unlimited copies for educational use. Any other use of these materials requires explicit permission. This page is intentionally left blank to maintain order of facing pages. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 31st Field Conference, Trans-Pecos Region, 1980 123 TECTONIC STYLE AND DEFORMATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE EAGLE-SOUTHERN QUITMAN MOUNTAINS, WESTERN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS D. F. REASER The University of Texas at Arlington and JAMES R. UNDERWOOD, JR. Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas INTRODUCTION these features "had their inception during Carboniferous time." In the exposed rocks in the Eagle-southern Quitman Mountains During Late Jurassic and Cretaceous time an estimated 6,000 m of region there is evidence of several major tectonic episodes: sediment, including extensive basal evaporites, accumulated in the 1. Geosynclinal subsidence, deposition and metamor- eastern part of the trough. The thick sedimentary sequence phism within the old Texas Craton late in the Precambrian deposited in the trough was intensely deformed during the Lara- (Flawn, 1956). mide orogeny to produce the folded and faulted mountains of the 2. Development of the Marathon geosyncline, the sedi- Chihuahua Tectonic Belt. DeFord (1969) remarked that these ments in which were deformed by late Paleozoic orogeny folded mountains "were eroded almost as fast as they rose out of that ended early in the Permian Period. This orogeny the trough." uplifted and tilted the foreland area, created the Van Horn According to DeFord and Twiss (1961), the Diablo Platform "is uplift as well as the larger Diablo Platform, and erected the the central feature of the Trans-Pecos tectonic framework." This present structural framework of Texas, indeed of the central United States (King, 1942). stable area, as well as the Coahuila Platform to the south, prob- 3. Geosynclinal subsidence of, and deposition in, the Chi- ably acted as buttresses during Laramide deformation. Over- huahua Trough and episodic advance northward and east- thrusting, overturning, and asymmetry of folds in the eastern part ward onto the Diablo Platform of the Mexican sea during of the Chihuahua Tectonic Belt are mostly northeastward toward the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. The alternating ad- the Diablo Platform, a late Paleozoic positive feature. The eastern vance and retreat of the Mexican sea resulted in the deposi- and northeastern limit of thrust faulting in the Chihuahua Tectonic tion of couplets of calciclastic and siliciclastic rocks. The Belt closely approximates the southwestern edge of the Diablo geosynclinal cycle culminated in the late Mesozoic-early Platform; the Eagle-Quitman mountains are in the eastern part of Cenozoic orogeny (Laramide), which produced open to the belt within three miles of the approximate limit of Laramide nearly recumbent folds and created thrust blocks, most of thrust-faulting (Deford, 1953, p. 20 and fig. 10, p. 21). Fold intensity which moved northeastward. 4. Intrusion and widespread extrusion of alkaline igneous increases westward and southwestward from the edge of the plat- rocks in late Eocene-early Oligocene times (Jones and form. Reaser, 1970). Viewed today, the Indio Mountains, Eagle Mountains, and Devil 5. Development of the gross outline of present-day Ridge are part of a mountain range that begins just west of Ojinaga ranges in the region by late Tertiary normal faulting that near La Mula, Chihuahua, and extends northwestward about 240 created a series of debris-filled grabens (bolsons) and km to Sierra Blanca. This range is the easternmost and largest in a eroded horsts (mountain masses). belt of folded ranges that emerge from Cenozoic cover in east- In rocks exposed in the Eagle Mountains-Indio Mountains-Devil central Chihuahua, just east of the Rio Conchos, and extend north- Ridge complex there is evidence of all five of the episodes; in the northwestward to the international boundary. These ranges Quitman Mountains, there is evidence only of the last three. roughly parallel the course of the Rio Grande, but two of them The Eagle-southern Quitman Mountains region lies, therefore, cross the river into Texas. In Texas the eastern element includes within and near the margins of two superimposed structural prov- the Indio Mountains, the Eagle Mountains, and Devil Ridge; the inces: near the eastern margin of the Basin and Range Province western, the Quitman Mountains. and near the northeastern margin of the Chihuahua Tectonic Belt The pattern of elongate, en echelon northwest-trending folded (fig. 1). mountain ranges in the tectonic belt suggests a system of tec- tonically related folds. These folds are generally parallel to the REGIONAL TECTONIC FRAMEWORK margin of the Chihuahua Trough; the general trend of the folds The major Mesozoic negative structural element in western changes from north-northwest to northwest along the Rio Grande Trans-Pecos Texas and adjacent northeastern Chihuahua was the between Ojinaga and Juarez. According to Sipperly (1967), this northwest-trending Chihuahua Trough; the major positive struc- change in trend "probably reflects a bend along the west edge of tural element was the Diablo Platform. The Chihuahua Trough, the Diablo Platform against which this rock was folded." more than 160 km long (DeFord, 1969, fig. 2, p. 63), was bounded The marked difference in thickness of the prism of Mesozoic on the southwest by the Aldama Platform and on the northeast by sedimentary rocks, from 6,000 m in the Chihuahua Trough to 600 the Diablo Platform. The trough abuts the Coahuila Platform on m north and eastward on the Diablo Platform, doubtless exerted the southeast (DeFord, 1969); southward, the narrow trough prob- great influence on the character of deformation. ably connected with the main part of the Mexican sea during most of Cretaceous time. According to Haenggi and Gries (1970), all Revised from Reaser and Underwood (1975). 124 REASER and UNDERWOOD Sierra Diablo uadalupe Figure 1. Oblique, southward view of mountain ranges in Texas and Mexico relative to the major tectonic framework. Photograph taken by White and McDivot with a hand-held Hasselblad camera on flight of Gemini-4, June 1965. Altitude is more than 160 km. Photograph courtesy of NASA. Key to Ranges DR–Devil Ridge MM–Malone Mountains EM–Eagle Mountains NQ–Northern Quitman Mountains IM–Indio Mountains SQ–Southern Quitman Mountains EAGLE MOUNTAINS, INDIO MOUNTAINS, DEVIL RIDGE In the eastern part of the Indio Mountains there are well exposed Although parts of a continuous range, the Eagle Mountains, Indio the remnants of several folded thrust blocks resting on sparsely ex- Mountains, and Devil Ridge display different structural styles. In posed overridden blocks. West of the Indio fault, the imbricate both the Devil Ridge and Indio Mountains areas, earlier workers thrust sheet is well preserved on the downthrown block. Imme- (Smith, 1940; AlIday, 1953; Adams, 1953; Bostwick, 1953) iden- diately east of the Indio fault the thrust sheet has been eroded tified northwest-trending major early Laramide folds several kilo- from the high part of the mountain but is preserved in topograph- meters wide, now largely masked by later Laramide and Basin and ically low areas along the east margin of the mountains (Under- Range deformation.
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