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Basement rocks exposed in the Acatlan Complex of the Mixteca terrane in southern Mexico record two tectonothermal events: (1) a Devonian- Mississippian (ca. 365-318 Ma) event, recording extrusion and exhumation of high-pressure rocks; and (2) an Early to Middle Permian (ca. 289-263 Ma) event, involving N-S dextral shearing, transtensional deformation, and local S-vergent thrusting in a magmatic arc environment. We document an additional, regionally significant, tectonothermal event during the Middle to Late Triassic recorded by Ar-40/Ar-39 step-heating laser-probe ages ranging from ca. 239 and 219 Ma (equivalent to cooling from ca. 525 degrees C to 300 degrees C) for amphibole, muscovite, and biotite from: (1) the Carboniferous Amarillo unit, consisting of medium-grade, metasedimentary rocks intruded by mafic dikes; and (2) the Pennsylvanian-Middle Permian, low-grade, clastic-calcareous, arc-related Tecomate Formation. U-Pb laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) data yield an age of 339 +/- 6 Ma for the youngest population of detrital zircon grains in the Amarillo unit. Lithogeochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic data for the Amarillo unit dikes are very similar to those of other Carboniferous meta-igneous rocks in the eastern and southwestern part of the Acatlan Complex, displaying affinities transitional between mid-ocean-ridge basalt (MORB) and continental tholeiites, and initial epsilon(Nd) (t = 339 Ma) values from -6.6 to +6.4, indicating both depleted and enriched mantle sources, as well as variable contamination by continental crust or by subduction-derived fluids. The Ar-40/Ar-39 cooling ages coincide with an apparent hiatus in magmatic activity in southern Mexico, which is inferred to record a change from steep to flat subduction.
- 出版日期2014-4
