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Geological Society of America Bulletin Downloaded from gsabulletin.gsapubs.org on 28 April 2009 Geological Society of America Bulletin Early Pleistocene initiation of the San Felipe fault zone, SW Salton Trough, during reorganization of the San Andreas fault system Alexander N. Steely, Susanne U. Janecke, Rebecca J. Dorsey and Gary J. Axen Geological Society of America Bulletin 2009;121;663-687 doi:10.1130/B26239.1 E-mail alerting services click www.gsapubs.org/cgi/alerts to receive free e-mail alerts when new articles cite this article Subscribe click www.gsapubs.org/subscriptions/index.ac.dtl to subscribe to Geological Society of America Bulletin Permission request click http://www.geosociety.org/pubs/copyrt.htm#gsa to contact GSA Copyright not claimed on content prepared wholly by U.S. government employees within scope of their employment. 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Notes © 2009 Geological Society of America Early Pleistocene initiation of the San Felipe fault zone, SW Salton Trough, during reorganization of the San Andreas fault system Alexander N. Steely* Susanne U. Janecke† Department of Geology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-4505 Rebecca J. Dorsey Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97405, USA Gary J. Axen Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA ABSTRACT sorted angular boulder conglomerate and transtension to distributed dextral faulting pebbly sandstone of the Sunset Conglom- south of the Big Bend. Structural and stratigraphic analyses erate are ~600 m thick and lie in angular along the western margin of the Salton unconformity on the Pliocene Palm Spring Keywords: strike-slip fault, Ocotillo Forma- Trough show that the San Andreas fault sys- Group. The conglomerate coarsens upward tion, contractional step, reorganization, detach- tem was reorganized in early Pleistocene time and toward the fault, and is dominated by ment fault. from a system dominated by two fault zones plutonic clasts derived from SW of it. Con- (the San Andreas fault and the West Salton glomerate beds contain up to 10% sandstone INTRODUCTION detachment fault) to a network of dextral clasts recycled from older basin fi ll and accu- faults that include the San Andreas and at mulated in proximal to medial alluvial fans Rocks and structures in the Salton Trough least four dextral faults to the southwest. The that were shed to the NE from uplifted rocks contain a record of complex late Cenozoic San Felipe fault zone, one of these dextral along the then-active Sunset fault. deformation and sedimentation related to the faults, has ~5.8 ± 2.8 km of right separation Based on lithologic, stratigraphic, struc- evolution of the Pacifi c–North America plate and consists of three principal faults in the tural, and compositional similarities, we cor- boundary in southern California and northern Peninsular Ranges. These are the San Felipe relate the Sunset Conglomerate to the Pleis- Mexico (Fig. 1) (Dibblee, 1954; Atwater, 1970; fault in the WNW, Sunset fault in the middle, tocene Ocotillo Formation. Clasts of recycled Sharp, 1972; Crowell, 1981; Winker, 1987; and Fish Creek Mountains fault in the ESE. sandstone record erosion of detachment- Winker and Kidwell, 1986, 1996; Axen and They form a left-stepping array and bound related basin fi ll that predates the San Felipe Fletcher, 1998; Dorsey, 2006; Steely, 2006). domains in which the Sunset Conglomer- fault and once covered the Vallecito and Fish During late Miocene (?) and Pliocene time the ate, the older West Salton detachment fault, Creek mountains. These crystalline-cored West Salton detachment fault was a major struc- and Cretaceous mylonitic rocks below the mountain ranges fi rst emerged from beneath ture that produced the Salton supradetachment detachment are folded about WNW-trending basin fi ll during early slip above the nascent basin in its hanging wall (Axen and Fletcher, folds. A complex fl ower structure within the San Felipe fault ca. 1.1–1.3 Ma. Later, the 1998; Dorsey, 2006). The detachment probably left-stepovers probably produced this fault- San Felipe fault zone cut upward, folded, continued to slip into the early Pleistocene based parallel folding. Because all the rocks within cut across, and deactivated the West Salton on the presence of lower Pleistocene conglom- stepovers of the San Felipe fault zone, from detachment fault within a ~9-km-wide con- erate and megabreccia shed from its footwall Cretaceous to Pleistocene, are deformed tractional bend and pair of left-steps. Areas (Axen and Fletcher, 1998; Winker and Kidwell, about WNW-trending folds and record that accumulated sediment within this step- 2002; Dorsey and Janecke, 2002; Dorsey et al., broadly similar shortening strains, we infer a over zone between ca. 1.1 and ca. 0.6 Ma are 2006; Kairouz, 2005). Plate boundary strain Quaternary age of deformation. Parts of the currently being inverted and folded. during this time was divided between the mas- San Felipe fault zone cut latest Pleistocene Initiation of the San Felipe fault in early ter southern San Andreas fault and the second- to Holocene surfi cial deposits, and the fault Pleistocene time was a signifi cant event in the ary West Salton detachment fault (Axen and zone is likely active. reorganization of the southern San Andreas Fletcher, 1998). Beginning sometime in Pleis- Evidence for early Pleistocene initiation fault system. The Quaternary dextral faults tocene time, the relatively simple two-fault zone of the San Felipe fault zone is preserved in broadened the plate boundary zone south- system was replaced by a more complex system conglomerate NE of the Sunset fault. Poorly westward from roughly 25 km (during coeval in which roughly half of the strain was distrib- slip on the San Andreas fault and West Salton uted unevenly across new dextral-oblique faults *E-mail: [email protected] detachment fault) to 50–70 km, and mark a south of the Big Bend in the San Andreas fault †E-mail: [email protected] change in the dominant structural style from (Morton and Matti, 1993). This incompletely GSA Bulletin; May/June 2009; v. 121; no. 5/6; p. 663–687; doi: 10.1130/B26239.1; 15 fi gures; 1 table. For permission to copy, contact [email protected] 663 © 2009 Geological Society of America Steely et al. To better understand the timing and structural style of this major tectonic reorganization along 34°N the plate boundary, we characterize and date the transition from slip on the West Salton detach- SAFZ Combin Palm Springs Y ment fault to slip on the San Felipe fault zone SJFZ in the western Salton Trough (Figs. 1 and 2). We examined exposures near Yaqui Ridge at the SFFZ SW margin of the San Felipe–Borrego subba- BSZ WSD sin to constrain the stratigraphic and structural ? EF Salton evolution of these structures (Fig. 3). Geologic 33°N mapping over an area of ~2.5 U.S. Geological Trough Survey (USGS) 7.5′ quadrangles was carried IF San Diego Gila R. out at scales of 1:12,000 and 1:24,000 in the Borrego Mountain, Borrego Sink, Harper Can- Col. R. yon, Whale Peak, and Squaw Peak 7.5′ USGS U.S.A. Mexico quadrangles (Steely, 2006). Stratigraphic, sedi- mentologic, and structural analyses reported km here are condensed from Steely (2006). 32°N 0 50 100 Regional Geology N The San Felipe fault zone strikes WNW and Gulf of is oriented ~10°–20° counterclockwise from the California 117°W 116°W 115°W 114°W adjacent San Jacinto and Elsinore fault zones. It is a major dextral strike-slip fault that approaches Figure 1. Tectonic overview of southern California and northern Mexico. San Felipe the Elsinore fault zone in the WNW and projects fault zone (SFFZ) is in bold black; other strike-slip faults are in black; SAFZ—San toward the Superstition Mountain segment of Andreas fault zone; SJFZ—San Jacinto fault zone; IF—Imperial fault; SJFZ—San the San Jacinto fault zone to the ESE (Dibblee, Jacinto fault zone; EF—Elsinore fault; BSZ—Brawley Seismic Zone. Oblique-slip 1954; Rogers, 1965; Figs. 1 and 2). The San detachment faults are in white including the WSD—West Salton detachment fault. Felipe and Elsinore fault zones were previously Fault locations are from Jennings (1977) and Axen and Fletcher (1998). Modifi ed inferred to have initiated by or before ca. 2 Ma from Kirby et al. (2007). Box is approximate location of Figure 2. in the Peninsular Ranges, with little signifi cant slip since ca. 0.9 Ma (Lamar and Rockwell, 1986; Hull and Nicholson, 1992; Magistrale and Rockwell, 1996). However, recent work understood event disrupted and deactivated ton detachment fault, as Lutz et al. (2006) and in the adjacent San Felipe Hills (Kirby, 2005; most of the West Salton detachment fault, reor- Kirby et al. (2007) proposed? What was the Kirby et al., 2007) and Borrego Badlands (Lutz, ganized the San Andreas fault system, and after basinal response to the growing San Felipe fault 2005; Lutz et al., 2006) documents a major some additional modifi cations, resulted in the zone? Is the San Felipe fault zone currently inac- stratigraphic and structural reorganization at current fault system of southern California.
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