Precambrian provinces of western North America, showing the Mazatzal Province (in brown)
The Mazatzal orogeny was an orogenic event in what is now the Southwestern United States from 1650 to 1600 Mya[1] in the Statherian Period of the Paleoproterozoic. Preserved in the rocks of New Mexico and Arizona, it is interpreted as the collision of the 1700-1600 Mya age[1] Mazatzal island arc terrane with the proto-North American continent. This was the second in a series of orogenies within a long-lived convergent boundary along southern Laurentia that ended with the ca. 1200–1000 Mya Grenville orogeny during the final assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia, which ended an 800-million-year episode of convergent boundary tectonism.[2][3][4][5][6]
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The Mazatzalorogeny was an orogenic event in what is now the Southwestern United States from 1650 to 1600 Mya in the Statherian Period of the Paleoproterozoic...
course of 200 million years in the Paleoproterozoic. The Yavapai and Mazatzalorogenies were peaks of orogenic activity during this time. These were part...
suturing of the Mazatzal crustal province onto Laurentia. According to the former hypothesis, this was the second in a series of orogenies within a long-lived...
the Yavapai orogeny at 1710–1680 Mya, the Mazatzalorogeny at 1650–1600 Ga, the Picuris orogeny at 1450–1300 Mya, and the Grenville orogeny at 1300–950...
group gives its name to the Mazatzalorogeny, a mountain-building event that took place between 1695 and 1630 Mya. The Mazatzal Group consists mostly of...
(1710–1700 Ma) Mazatzalorogeny – Mountain-building event in North America – Mid to south western U.S., (1675–1650 Ma) Picuris orogeny – Mountain-building...
but was overwritten during the Yavapai and Mazatzalorogenies in the Proterozoic. The Grenville orogeny to the east caused Arizona to fill with sediments...
included the Yavapai orogeny at 1.71 to 1.68 Gya, which welded the 1.8 to 1.7 Ga Yavapai province to Laurentia; the Mazatzalorogeny at 1.65 to 1.60 Gya...
Australia: Isan Orogeny influences Mount Isa Block of Queensland – major deposits of lead, silver, copper and zinc are laid down. MazatzalOrogeny (to c. 1,300...
of crust was subjected to long scale crustal shortening during the Mazatzalorogeny which formed isoclinal folds and shear zones. North Mountain and Shaw...
history of the state began with its assembly during the Yavapai and Mazatzalorogenies 1750 to 1650 million years ago (Mya). This was followed by 200 million...
Trans-North China Orogen in North China; and the 1.8-1.6 Ga Yavapai and Mazatzalorogenies in southern North America. That pattern of collision belts supports...
Pilar basin) opened during the transition from the Yavapai orogeny to the Mazatzalorogeny. Based on clast deformation, the formation has been compressed...
Proterozoic. From 1.75 to 1.65 billion years ago, Utah was impacted by the Mazatzalorogeny. Thick sequences of sedimentary rock from the Neoproterozoic, including...
seriously deformed during the early Proterozoic and named this episode the Mazatzalorogeny. C.A Anderson and various coinvestigators studied the unit between...
having been emplaced during caldera volcanism associated with the Mazatzalorogeny. Kelley & Northrop 1975. Grambling et al. 2016, pp. 170–171. Connolly...
interpreted as a product of caldera eruptions associated with the Mazatzalorogeny. Stark and Dapples 1959 Condie and Budding 1979 Bauer and Pollock 1993...
either with mountain collapse at the end of the Mazatzalorogeny or tectonics of the Picuris orogeny that resulted in south-directed displacement of the...
deformation in the Four Peaks area, central Arizona, and relevance for the Mazatzalorogeny". Geosphere. 11 (6): 1975–1995. doi:10.1130/GES01196.1. Holland, Mark...
700 and 1.693 Gya as part of the transition from the Yavapai orogeny to the Mazatzalorogeny, and further deformed between 1.45 and 1.35 Gya. Gold has been...
Group volcanism or a stitching pluton associated with the Yavapai-Mazatzalorogenies. The unit was originally included in the Tusas Granite by Just in...
framework of Proterozoic rocks from central New Mexico, USA: Formation of the Mazatzal crustal province in an extended continental margin arc". Precambrian Research...
(8,900 ft) thick. The group records deformation attributed to the Mazatzalorogeny, and the quartzites of the group may be the provenance of the lower...
into northwest Chihuahua, Mexico. The Big Burro Mountains are part of the Mazatzal province, a block of the Earth's crust that began as an island arc and...
of this thickening created the 5-to-6-mile (8 to 10 km) high ancestral Mazatzal Mountains. Subsequent erosion lasting 300 million years stripped much of...
framework of Proterozoic rocks from central New Mexico, USA: Formation of the Mazatzal crustal province in an extended continental margin arc". Precambrian Research...
subduction zone scar, separating Precambrian basement rock of the Yavapai-Mazatzal transition zone from the Mazaztl Province proper. Also on the Colorado...
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