Tectonic development of the Colorado Plateau Transition Zone, central Arizona: Insights from lower lithosphere xenoliths and volcanic host rocks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan D. Chapman* ◽  
Nancy Riggs ◽  
Mihai N. Ducea ◽  
Jason B. Saleeby ◽  
Ojashvi Rautela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transition Zone ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Tectonic Development ◽  
Host Rocks ◽  
Central Arizona

Age and sedimentary environments of uranium host rocks, Colorado Plateau

1955 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yngvar William Isachsen ◽  
Thomas Wilson Mitcham ◽  
Hiram Bud Wood
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Sedimentary Environments ◽  
Host Rocks

scholarly journals Incision history of the Verde Valley region and implications for uplift of the Colorado Plateau (central Arizona)

Geosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1690-1709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Ott ◽  
Kelin X. Whipple ◽  
Matthijs van Soest
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
History Of ◽  
Plateau Central ◽  
Central Arizona

Signal penetration In the COCORP Basin and Range‐Colorado Plateau survey

Geophysics ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 1050-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Mayer ◽  
Larry D. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Transition Zone ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Sedimentary Cover ◽  
Basin And Range ◽  
Eastern Basin ◽  
Arrival Times ◽  
Reflection Data ◽  
Temporal Decay ◽  
On Line ◽  
Seismic Sections

Seismic sections from COCORP’s 1982 survey from the eastern Basin and Range to the Colorado Plateau of central Utah exhibit distinct cutoff times after which reflections are rare to nonexistent. In the eastern Basin and Range, this cutoff time is approximately 11 s (33 km), but beneath the central Colorado Plateau it exceeds 15 s (45 km). These depths appear to correspond to the base of the crust (Moho), with the lack of reflections from greater depths indicating mantle homogeneity. In general, absence of deeper reflections may be due either to geologic homogeneity or to lack of signal penetration. COCORP line 3 in the Colorado Plateau‐Basin and Range transition zone shows that variations in penetration are significant. On line 3 few reflections are evident below the structurally complex sedimentary cover, which extends to only 4 s (8 km), and virtually none are identifiable later than 7 s (21 km). Lateral variations in the temporal decay of source‐generated energy, together with estimates of corresponding ambient noise levels, infer that limited signal penetration, rather than geologic homogeneity, causes the lack of subsedimentary reflections within the transition zone. Deep reflections, if any, from beneath the westernmost Colorado Plateau appear to be masked by unusually high local environmental noise. In contrast, continued decay of source‐generated energy at traveltimes significantly greater than Moho arrival times within the Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau suggests (though it cannot confirm) that the underlying mantle is seismically transparent. Variations in signal penetration, such as those documented here, severely constrain interpretations of nonreflective zones in deep reflection data and should be a standard estimation in any interpretational procedure.

scholarly journals In search for the missing arc root of the Southern California Batholith: P-T-t evolution of upper mantle xenoliths of the Colorado Plateau Transition Zone

2020 ◽  
Vol 547 ◽  
pp. 116447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ojashvi Rautela ◽  
Alan D. Chapman ◽  
Jessie E. Shields ◽  
Mihai N. Ducea ◽  
Cin-Ty Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transition Zone ◽  
Upper Mantle ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Mantle Xenoliths ◽  
Arc Root
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