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Cauldron Subsidence of Oligocene Age at Mount Lewis, Northern Shoshone Range, Nevada Cauldron Subsidence of Oligocene Age At Mount Lewis, Northern Shoshone Range, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 876 Cauldron Subsidence of Oligocene Age At Mount Lewis, Northern Shoshone Range, Nevada By CHESTER T. WRUCKE and MILES L. SILBERMAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 876 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1975 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STANLEY K. HATHAWAY, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. E. McKelvey, Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Wrucke, Chester T. 1927- Cauldron subsidence of Oligocene age at Mount Lewis, northern Shoshone Range, Nevada (Geological Survey Professional Paper 876) Bibliography: p. 19-20. Supt. of Docs. No.: I 19.16:876 1. Volcanism-Nevada-Shoshone Mountains. 2. Subsidences(Earth movements)-Shoshone Mountains. 3. Geology, Stratigraphic-Oligocene. I. Silberman, Miles L.,joint author. II. Title. III. Series: United States. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 876. QE461.W89 557 .3'08s[551.2'1] 75-619173 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Stock Number 024-001-Q2693-1 CONTENTS Page Page Abstract __ __ __ ____ __ ____ __ _ _ ____ __ ________ ______ ________ __ 1 Extrusive and sedimentary rocks.___________________________ 15 Introduction ---------------------------------------------- 1 Deposits on Mount Lewis and in Indian Creek Valley____ 15 Geologic setting ____ __ __ __ _ _ ____ __ ____ __ ______ __ __ __ __ ___ _ 3 Caetano Tuff __________________________________________ 15 Boundary fault ____ _____ ___ __ _ __ _ ____ __ __ ___ __ _ _____ ______ _ 3 Depositional sequence__________________________________ 16 Internal structure ---------------------------------------- 10 History of volcanism -------------------------------------- 16 Intrusive rocks _ ___ __ ______ __ ______ __ ______ __ ____ __ _____ ___ 11 Caetano Tuff and the Mount Lewis cauldron ________________ 17 Pipes and plugs -------------------------------------- 12 Comparison of the Mount Lewis and other cauldrons ________ 18 Intrusive quartz latite breccia of Gilluly and Gates ______ 12 References cited ------------------------------------------ 19 Dikes ------------------------------------------------ 13 Intrusive sequence ------------------------------------ 14 ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE 1. Generalized geologic map of part of north-central Nevada showing location of the Mount Lewis cauldron, selected lithologic units, faults, and aeromagnetic contours _________________________________________ ------------------------------ 2 2. Geologic map of the Mount Lewis area showing the ring fault ------------------------------------------------------- 4 3. Map of the Mount Lewis area showing Tertiary igneous rocks, selected faults, and the location of chemically analyzed samples and samples dated by K-Ar methods --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 4. Geologic maps and sections ofthe southern margin of the Mount Lewis area___________________________________________ 8 5. Map showing attitudes of thrust faults in and around the Mount Lewis cauldron ______________________ ----------------- 10 6. Chart showing sequence and duration of events at Mount Lewis and vicinity and differentiation index as a function of age of igneous rocks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 7. Histogram of K-Ar and fission-track ages of the Caetano Tuff________________________________________ ----------------- 18 TABLES Page TABLE 1. Chemical analyses, norms, and semiquantitative spectrographic analyses of Tertiary igneous rocks, Mount Lewis area and vicinity, Nevada _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 13 2. Swnmary of K-Ar ages of igneous rocks from Mount Lewis and vicinity----------------------------------------------- 14 3. Analytical data for new K-Ar ages of igneous rocks from Mount Lewis ----------------------------------------------- 15 III CAULDRON SUBSIDENCE OF OLIGOCENE AGE AT MOUNT LEWIS, NORTHERN SHOSHONE RANGE, NEVADA By CHF:STF:R T. WtWCKE and MILES L. SILBER;o.IAI\ ABSTRAGI. Norway by exposing only a small percentage of intrusive rocks, prob­ In the Shoshone Range of north-central Nevada, a ring fault that ably because the subjacent pluton at Mount Lewis did not rise to high dips vertically to 65° inward outlines a deeply eroded cauldron 16 km levels during resurgent doming as in most ring complexes and caul­ in diameter. Thrust faults of Early Mississippian and early Mesozoic drons. age that cut Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata in the cauldron have been INTRODUCTION deformed by the subsidence and dip inward, steeply near the ring fault, more gently in the interior, where they form a concentric pat­ One of the most prominent structural features of the tern around a centrally located cluster of plugs and breccia pipes. Shoshone Range in north-central Nevada (fig. 1) is a The plugs and breccia pipes are the largest intrusive bodies in the ring fault 16 km in diameter (fig. 2). On the deeply subsided block. Plugs of quartz monzonite, rhyolite porphyry, and pumiceous vitrophyre occupy central positions in each of three breccia incised flanks of Mount Lewis, the highest peak at the pipes; a dacite plug and two rhyolite plugs occur several kilometers northern end of the range, this fault bounds Paleozoic from the pipes. Other intrusive bodies include a subhorizontal mass of and Mesozoic stratified rocks that foundered during vol­ quartz latite breccia at the summit of Mount Lewis, many dikes in the canic collapse. Within the subsided mass, breccia pipes, western part of the cauldron, and an intrusive breccia in the ring fault. plugs, and dikes, together with remnants of tuffs and The intrusive deposits, some of which have been studied in detail by Gilluly and Gates, contribute only a few percent of the exposed rocks volcaniclastic deposits, record an episode of Oligocene in the cauldron. volcanism. The collapse structure, here named the Extrusive rocks in the vicinity of Mount Lewis are preserved mainly Mount Lewis cauldron, is one of the oldest Tertiary within the cauldron. One sequence of extrusive and interlayered vol­ volcanic centers in Nevada. It is relatively deeply caniclastic rocks crops out at the summit, on a few spurs that extend eroded, as the greater part of the rocks exposed lie well out from the summit, and in lowland east of the mountain. This sequence is composed of altered tuffs, dacite lava flows and agglomer­ below the base of the original volcanic edifice. ate, rhyolite welded tuffs, conglomerate, and sandstone. There is Our interest in the subsidence structure was aroused another sequence at the north margin of the cauldron and in an when we noticed on the geologic map of the northern extensive volcano-tectonic depression centered 25 km south of Mount Shoshone Range by Gilluly and Gates (1965), a fault Lewis. It consists of andesite lava flows and rhyolite welded ash-flow pattern strikingly concentric about the volcanic center tuff of the Caetano Tuff. K-Ar dates and field relations provide a basis for determining only at Mount Lewis and markedly different from the struc­ the general chronology of igneous events related to cauldron subsi­ tural grain of the surrounding area. In order to deter­ dence at Mount Lewis. Collapse occurred after the ring fault cut a mine the significance of the fault pattern, Wrucke spent 35.1-m.y.-old granodiorite pluton and before the fault was invaded by several weeks examining structural, stratigraphic, and 33.2-m.y .-old intrusion breccia. Age determinations of 34.4 m.y . from igneous features in and around the subsided mass and the dacite plug and 34.7 and 33.2 m.y. from the quartz latite intrusion breccia record volcanism interpreted as occurring before collapse. made a geologic sketch map (fig. 4) of a key area at the Subsidence is thought to have resulted from eruption of some of the cauldron margin. Silberman obtained K-AR dates (ta­ 33-31-m.y.-old Caetano Tufffrom the Mount Lewis cauldron. Uplift of bles 2, 3) that helped establish the sequence of igneous volcanic and sedimentary rocks in the center of the cauldron 850 m and structural events. Together we visited many relative to deposits near the ring fault, and the dips away from the localities and collected samples for isotopic dating. Al­ summit in patches of these rocks on spurs flanking the mountain may result from mild resurgent doming. though this paper documents critical episodes in the Volcanic activity in the northern Shoshone Range during an igne­ history of volcanism at Mount Lewis, we recognize that ous cycle that existed from 38 to 31 m.y. ago began with intrusions of the area is structurally far too complex to be fully un­ small granodiorite and quartz monzonite plutons, continued with derstood from reconnaissance examinations. Our in­ emplacement of plugs and presubsidence tuffs at Mount Lewis, and terpretations have benefited greatly from progress ended with eruption of the Caetano Tuff from the volcano-tectonic depression and the Mount Lewis cauldron. The cauldron thus formed made in the understanding of cauldrons and calderas differs from many cauldrons in the western United States and from since Gilluly and Gates completed fieldwork in the igneous ring complexes in Great Britain, New England, Nigeria, and Shoshone Range in 1959. 1 2 CAULDRON SUBSIDENCE OF OLIGOCENE AGE, MOUNT LEWIS, NORTHERN SHOSHONE RANGE, NEVADA 11JOOO' 116°30' EXPLANATION
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