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SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
Volume 336, Issue -, Pages 138-146Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.11.008
Keywords
Cretaceous; Baja California; Magmatic arc basin; Volcaniclastic/tuffaceous sandstones; Compositional modes
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- National Science Foundation [EAR-93-04130, EAR-13-47901]
- Italian National Council of Research
- Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica (M.I.U.R.)
- N.A.T.O.-C.N.R.
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1545676] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The Rosario segment of the Early Cretaceous Alisitos oceanic magmatic arc in Baja California displays a record of arc-axis sedimentation and volcanism that is well preserved in outcrops within a southern volcano-bounded and a northern fault-bounded basin that flanked an intervening subaerial edifice. This record includes volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks that range from felsic to mafic in composition. Volcaniclastic/tuffaceous sandstone samples from two previously published measured sections are mainly composed of volcanic clasts with moderate plagioclase content. Locally quartz and/or potassium feldspar are present in trace to moderate amounts. The proportions of volcanic lithic types exhibiting vitric, microlitic, lathwork, and felsitic textures are highly variable with no distinct stratigraphic trends, likely as a function of the mixed styles of eruption and magma compositions that produced pyrodasts, as well as erosion-produced epidastic debris. The volcaniclastic fill of the basins is consistent with an oceanic arc setting, except for the relatively high felsitic volcanic lithic content, likely associated with subaerial, as opposed to the more common submarine felsic magmatism associated with arc extension in oceanic settings. There are no major differences in compositional modes of tuff and sandstone between the fault-bounded and volcano-bounded basin strata, even though they exhibit distinctly different volcaniclastic facies. This suggests that proximal arc-axis basins of varying types around a single major subaerial edifice provide a faithful record of volcanic trends in the arc segment, regardless of variation in transport and depositional processes. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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