Preliminary geologic map of part of the Levias-Crittenden Spring fault system, Crittenden County, Kentucky

ABSTRACT The basic stratigraphic and structural framework of Mount Diablo is described using a revised geologic map, gravity data, and aeromagnetic data. The mountain is made up of two distinct stratigraphic assemblages representing different depocenters that were juxtaposed by ~20 km of late Pliocene and Quaternary right-lateral offset on the Greenville-Diablo-Concord fault. Both assemblages are composed of Cretaceous and Cenozoic strata overlying a compound basement made up of the Franciscan and Great Valley complexes. The rocks are folded and faulted by late Neogene and Quaternary compressional structures related to both regional plate-boundary–normal compression and a restraining step in the strike-slip fault system. The core of the mountain is made up of uplifted basement rocks. Late Neogene and Quaternary deformation is overprinted on Paleogene extensional deformation that is evidenced at Mount Diablo by significant attenuation in the basement rocks and by an uptilted stepped graben structure on the northeast flank. Retrodeformation of the northeast flank suggests that late Early to early Late Cretaceous strata may have been deposited against and across a steeply west-dipping basement escarpment. The location of the mountain today was a depocenter through the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene and received shallow-marine deposits periodically into the late Miocene. Uplift of the mountain itself happened mostly in the Quaternary.

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New insights from geophysical data on the regional structure and geometry of the southwest Thelon Basin and its basement, Northwest Territories, Canada

Geophysics ◽

10.1190/geo2015-0586.1 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 81 (5) ◽

pp. B167-B178 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Victoria Tschirhart ◽

Sally J. Pehrsson

Keyword(s):

Northwest Territories ◽

Fault System ◽

Precambrian Geology ◽

Thelon Basin ◽

The North ◽

Gravity And Magnetic ◽

Magnetic Signatures ◽

Frontier Region ◽

Geologic Map ◽

Active Exploration

Detailed analysis of gravity and aeromagnetic data covering the southwest Thelon Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada, has provided insight into basement geology that has significance to exploration for uranium and possibly other economic metals in a remote frontier region. Interpretation of basement geology has been constrained by the calibration of gravity and magnetic signatures with Precambrian geology adjacent to the basin and sparse seismic data within the basin, creating the first basement geologic map of the southwest Thelon Basin. The basement to the overlying sedimentary units is dominated by magnetic felsic and mafic bodies variably overlying and intruding the gneissic crystalline basement. Supracrustal belts located outside the basin margins are interpreted to continue below the basin fill. Major structures have been delineated geophysically including the Howard Lake Shear Zone and the Bathurst and McDonald fault systems. Northwest-trending structures forming part of the Bathurst fault system appear to control the unconformity surface morphology and the location of basin depocenters. The geologic interpretations are corroborated by joint gravity and magnetic modeling of profiles that reveal the deepest part of the Thelon Basin reaches depths of [Formula: see text] in an area of subdued magnetic and gravimetric response to the north. The basin is a focus of active exploration for uranium, and we have found that areas along the south and eastern margins underlain by U-rich granitoid rocks may have significant potential where intersected by reactivated faults.

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SEM study of quartz grains from recent sediments: Western Iraq

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010017743x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 860-861

Author(s):

F. Al-Kufaishi

Keyword(s):

Factor Loading ◽

Fault System ◽

Clay Material ◽

Crustal Material ◽

Factor Analyses ◽

Five Factors ◽

Sem Study ◽

Recent Sediments ◽

Quartz Grains ◽

Positive Factor

Two localities (Al-Marij and Laik) were selected to investigate the type of Quartz Grains from crustal material formed by evaporation of waters discharged by springs in Hit area, western Iraq, Previous studies on the crustal material (1,2) showed that the water discharged by these springs are associated with Abu-Jir fault system which run parallel to the Euphrates river,Factor analyses of the crustal and soil materials (50 samples analysed for 16 variables)(2) showed five factors; the first factor includes SiO2, Al2O3 and TiO2 with positive factor loading, and CaO, L.O.I. with negative loading and hence lead to the conclusion that the distribution of these variables is a reflection of transported clay material.This study concentrates on the use of SEM to investigate the contribution of Quartz grains found in the crustal material on two selected sites.

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