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Tectonic Events Since Early Paleozoic in the Carlin-Pinon Range Area, Nevada Tectonic Events Since Early Paleozoic in the Carlin-Pinon Range Area, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 867-C Prepared in cooperation with Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Tectonic Events Since Early Paleozoic in the Carlin-Pinon Range Area, Nevada By]. FRED S~fiTH, JR., and KEITH B. KETNER GEOLOGY OF THE CARLIN-PINON RANGE AREA, NEVADA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 867-C Prepared in coopPration ·with N n'ada Bureau of Mines and Geology Of Sf''Vf'n rPcognizPd dPformational episodes thP ParliPst occurrPd in Late Devonian to Early Mississippian. tim£' and a prirtcipal orogrnic evpnf occurred in Mesozoic tim£' UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1977 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. E. McKelvey, Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Smith, Joe Fred, 1911- Tectonic events since early Paleozoic in the Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada. (Geology of the Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada) (Geological Survey Professional Paper 867-C) Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.16:867-C 1. Geology-Nevada-Elko Co. 2. Geology-Nevada-Eureka Co. I. Ketner, Keith Brindley, 1921- joint author. II. Nevada. Bureau of Mines and Geology. III. Title. IV. Series. V. Series: United States Geological Survey Professional Pa Paper 867-C. QE138.E4S64 551.8'09793' 16 76-608351 For -,ale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Go\'ernment Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Stock Number 024-001-02953-7 CONTENTS Page i\bstract ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C1 Introduction -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 The stratigraphic column _____________________________________ ------------------------- 1 (}eneral structure _____________________________________________________________________ _ 1 Structural events ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Late Late Devonian to early Early Mississippian deformation ------------------------ 3 Early Mississippian to Middle Pennsylvanian uplift and downwarp ____________________ 10 Late Middle to early Late Pennsylvanian deformation-------------------------------- 10 Early Mesozoic uplift ____________________________________________________ ---------- 11 Late Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous deformation---------------------------------- 11 Early Oligocene deformation ____________________________________________ ------------ 12 Miocene and younger deformation __________________________________________ -------- 13 Deformation of uncertain age ________________________________________ -------------- 13 Conclusion ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14 References cited ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE 1. Index map of the Carlin-Pinon Range area and neighboring region, northeast Nevada ______ ------------------------ C3 2. Sketch map of the Carlin-Pinon Range area showing ages of principal folds and thrust faults -------------------------- 8 3. Chart showing intervals of Devonian and younger tectonic and igneous activity, Carlin-Pinon Range area and some parts of the neighboring region ______________________________________________________________________________________ 15 TABLE Page TABLE 1. Rock units exposed in the Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada C4 III IV CONTENTS SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT UNITS This report uses both metric and English systems of units. In the text, metric units appear first and equivalent measurements in English units follow in parentheses. The units are abbreviated using the notation in the following list, and metric units were converted to English units by means of the multiplication factors shown. To convert: To: Multiply by: (Metric unit) (English unit) (Multiplication factor) kilometers (km) miles (mil 0.6214 meters (m) feet (ft) 3.281 GEOLOGY OF THE CARLIN-PINON RANGE AREA, NEVADA TECTONIC EVENTS SINCE EARLY PALEOZOIC IN THE CARLIN-PINON RANGE AREA, NEVADA By J. FRED SMITH, JR., and KEITH B. KETNER ABSTRACT Paleozoic orogeny equivalent to the three separate tec­ tonic events that we recognize between Late Devonian Following a long tranquil interval in early Paleozoic time, rocks of and Late Pennsylvanian time. Roberts, Hotz, Gilluly, the area were subjected to at least seven distinct deformational and Ferguson (1958) described regional aspects of the episodes as follows: (1) multiple subparallel thrusts of great dis­ Antler orogeny and presented convincing evidence of placement in late Late Devonian to early Early Mississippian; (2) the age of that event that was based on our work in the deep subsidence in the area coupled with strong uplift close to the Carlin-Pinon Range area. west edge of the area beginning in middle Early Mississippian; (3) regional uplift and local folding and eastward-directed thrusting in Fieldwork for this report extended, with interrup­ late Middle to early Late Pennsylvanian; {4) renewed uplift and tions, mainly from 1955 to 1964; it was continued for a permanent end of marine conditions in early Mesozoic; (5) igneous few days each year in 1965, 1969, and 1971. intrustion followed by intense folding, some of very large scale, and The stratigraphic sequence and structural relations westward-directed thrusting climaxing in Late Jurassic to Early could not have been determined without a large Cretaceous; (6) igneous intrusion and local folding in early Oligocene; and (7) normal faulting climaxing in Miocene. Evidence number of paleontologic and radiometric ages supplied from this area suggests that the displacement on the Roberts thrust by specialists. These paleontologists, geologists, and at this latitude was at least 110 km (68 mi) and probably much more. chemists are acknowledged individually at appropriate The leading edge of the upper plate of that thrust probably lay places in Chapters A (Smith and Ketner, 1975) and B diagonally or irregularly across the area after movement ceased. (Smith and Ketner, 1976) of this report. We were for­ Sedimentation was scarcely interrupted near this leading edge of the upper plate, but other areas nearby to the west were emergent and tunate in having the able assistance in the field of the were deeply eroded immediately after emplacement. Mesozoic tec­ following geologists: Jose B. Alarcon of Chile, John R. tonism involving prolonged uplift, injection of large igneous bodies, Algor, David D. Blackwell, William M. Briggs, John B. volcanism, intense folding, and thrusting constitutes a complex Corliss, Robert S. Crosson, Robert N. Diffenbach, orogenic event of major importance and is a principal orogenic event George Ditsworth, Pedro A. Gelabert, Richard S. Kopp, in the history of the area. William L. Lehmbeck, Lucian B. Platt, Robert K. Smith, Jack A. Wolfe, and John C. Young. INTRODUCTION The country here designated the Carlin-Pinon THE STRATIGRAPHIC COLUMN Range area comprises four 15-minute quadrangles­ Rocks ranging in age from Ordovician to Holocene the Carlin, Dixie Flats, Pine Valley, and Robinson make up the stratigraphic column in the Carlin-Pinon Mountain quadrangles-in northeast Nevada (fig. 1). Range area and have been described in Chapters A J. F. Smith, Jr., and K. B. Ketner have mapped the (Smith and Ketner, 1975) and B (Smith and Ketner, geology of these four quadrangles at a scale of 1:62,500 1976) of this report. Brief descriptions and thick­ and prepared accompanying structure sections (Smith nesses of the rock units are presented in table 1. and Ketner, 1977). Past work in the immediate area includes the re­ GENERAL STRUCTURE ports of the 40th Parallel Survey, in which Hague (1877) alluded to structures in the Pinon Range. In an Structural features in the Carlin-Pinon Range area early report on the mineral districts of the region, include folds and both normal and thrust faults. A Emmons (1910, p. 88-95) noted the anticlinal structure north-northwest-trending anticline follows the crest of of the Pinon Range near the Railroad mining district. the Pinon Range for much of its length; a northeast­ Kay (1952) and Dott (1955) recognized evidence of trending syncline crosses the northern part of the area Cl C2 GEOLOGY OF THE CARLIN-PINON RANGE AREA, NEVADA We lisp Elko0 0 Reno Eureka0 1 0 Enlarged area Ely 50 100 150 MILES 0 10 20 30 40 50 MILES 0 10 20 30 40 50 Kl LOMETERS TECTONIC EVENTS SINCE EARLY PALEOZOIC IN THE CARLIN-PINON RANGE AREA C3 for about 24 km (15 mi); and shorter folds of varying igenous intrusion and local folding with generally trends occur throughout the area and are clustered in north trends in early Oligocene; and (7) normal fault­ some parts of it, as from Smith Creek south to Willow ing and volcanism climaxing in Miocene time. We are Creek. East of the Pinon Range to Cedar Ridge, the reluctant to assign these tectonic events to any previ­ older rocks are apparently synclinal. A fault bounds ously recognized and named orogenies, such as the part of the west side of the Pinon Range, but no bound­ Antler, Sonoma, Nevadan, Sevier, or Laramide, until ing fault is evident on the east side. A prominent there is a clearer consensus on the temporal and geog­ basin-and-range fault bounding the west side of the raphic limits of orogenic events in the region. The Cortez Mountains extends into the mapped area for major thrusting occurred during the Devonian­ about 1.6 km (1 mi). Other normal faults of varying Mississippian and the major folding, during the trends, mostly
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