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Integrated Cretaceous–Cenozoic plate tectonics and structural geology in southern Mexico

Rod Graham, James Pindell, Diego Villagómez, View ORCID ProfileRoberto Molina-Garza, James Granath and Maria Sierra-Rojas
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 504, 285-314, 24 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP504-2020-70
Rod Graham
1Department of Geology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BP, UK
Roles: [Conceptualization (Lead)], [Formal analysis (Lead)], [Investigation (Equal)], [Methodology (Equal)], [Project administration (Equal)], [Validation (Equal)], [Visualization (Lead)], [Writing - Original Draft (Lead)], [Writing - Review & Editing (Lead)]
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James Pindell
2Tectonic Analysis Ltd, Duncton, West Sussex GU28 0LH, UK
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Diego Villagómez
3Tectonic Analysis Ltd, 14 rue Ferrier, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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Roberto Molina-Garza
4Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Juriquilla, Querétaro, México
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James Granath
5Granath and Associates, 2306 Glenhaven Dr., Highlands Ranch, CO 80126, USA
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Maria Sierra-Rojas
6Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, AP 1039, 83000, Hermosillo, Sonora, México
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Abstract

The structural evolution of southern Mexico is described in the context of its plate tectonic evolution and illustrated by two restored crustal scale cross-sections through Cuicateco and the Veracruz Basin and a third across Chiapas. We interpret the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous opening of an oblique hyper-stretched intra-arc basin between the Cuicateco Belt and Oaxaca Block of southern Mexico where Lower Cretaceous deep-water sediments accumulated. These rocks, together with the hyper-stretched basement beneath them and the Oaxaca Block originally west of them, were thrust onto the Cretaceous platform of the Cuicateco region during a Late Cretaceous–Eocene orogenic event. The mylonitic complex of the Sierra de Juárez represents this hyper-stretched basement, perhaps itself an extensional allochthon. The Chiapas fold-and-thrust belt is mainly Neogene in age. Shallowing of the subduction angle of the Cocos Plate in the wake of the Chortis Block, suggested by seismicity and migrating arc volcanism, is thought to play an important role in the development of the Chiapas fold-and-thrust belt itself, helping to explain the structural dilemma of a vertical transcurrent plate boundary fault (the Tonalá Fault) at the back of an essentially dip-slip fold-and-thrust belt.

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Integrated Cretaceous–Cenozoic plate tectonics and structural geology in southern Mexico

Rod Graham, James Pindell, Diego Villagómez, Roberto Molina-Garza, James Granath and Maria Sierra-Rojas
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 504, 285-314, 24 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP504-2020-70
Rod Graham
1Department of Geology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BP, UK
Roles: [Conceptualization (Lead)], [Formal analysis (Lead)], [Investigation (Equal)], [Methodology (Equal)], [Project administration (Equal)], [Validation (Equal)], [Visualization (Lead)], [Writing - Original Draft (Lead)], [Writing - Review & Editing (Lead)]
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James Pindell
2Tectonic Analysis Ltd, Duncton, West Sussex GU28 0LH, UK
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Diego Villagómez
3Tectonic Analysis Ltd, 14 rue Ferrier, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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Roberto Molina-Garza
4Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Juriquilla, Querétaro, México
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Maria Sierra-Rojas
6Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, AP 1039, 83000, Hermosillo, Sonora, México
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Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 504, 285-314, 24 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP504-2020-70
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