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The age and composition of the pre-Cenozoic basement of the Jalisco Block: implications for and relation to the Guerrero composite terrane

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The Jalisco Block is thought to be part of the Guerrero terrane, but the nature and age of the underlying crystalline basement are largely unknown. We have collected a suite of schists, granitoids, and weakly metamorphosed marine sediments from various parts of the Jalisco Block including Atenguillo and Ameca, Mascota and San Sebastián, Cuale, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Mita, Yelapa, and Tomatlán. The schists range in age from 135 to 161 Ma, with many exhibiting Proterozoic and Phanerozoic zircon ages. The granitoids range in age from 65 to 90 Ma, and are calc-alkaline compositionally—similar to granitoids from the Puerto Vallarta and Los Cabos batholiths. The Jalisco granitoids also experienced similar uplift rates to granitoids from the regions to the north and south of the Jalisco Block. The marine sediments yield a maximum depositional age of 131 Ma, and also contain a significant zircon population with ages extending back to the Archean. Granitoids from this study define two age groups, even after the effects of thermal resetting and different closure temperatures are considered. The 66.8-Ma silicic ash flow tuff near Union de Tula significantly expands the extent of this Cretaceous–Paleocene age ash flow tuff unit within the Jalisco Block, and we propose calling the unit “Carmichael silicic ash flow tuff volcanic succession” in honor of Ian Carmichael. The ages of the basement schists in the Jalisco Block fully overlap with the ages of terranes of continental Mexico, and other parts of the Guerrero terrane in the south, confirming the autochthonous origin of the Jalisco Block rather than exotic arc or allochthonous origin. Geologic data, in combination with geochronologic and oxygen isotopic data, suggest the evolution of SW Mexico with an early 200–1,200-Ma passive margin, followed by steep subduction in a continental arc setting at 160–165 Ma, then shallower subduction by 135 Ma, and finally, emplacement of granitoids at 65–90 Ma.

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I.S.E. Carmichael had a huge influence on KR and among other things got him thinking about basement lithologies in Jalisco while undertaking graduate studies at UC Berkeley in 1990–1994. Initial funding for this project was provided by the University of Arizona Small Grants Program from the office of the Vice President for Research. This initial help was instrumental in getting this project supported in the way required to carry out a comprehensive study. The study was supported by CONACyT Ciencia Basica (CB-2009-01—00131191) and NSF International Programs (INT0420380); for the latter, we thank H. Stolberg for his assistance, as well as L. Lane (Univ. of Arizona), D. Cranford (LPI), and D. Devin (USRA) for their assistance with financial issues. G. Gehrels and J. Vervoort are thanked for being supportive of finalizing this study. M. A. García García and A.S. Rosas Montoya helped with the Ar–Ar experiments. Paul Wallace provided petrographic microscope images of LV-250 that are in the online resource. The journal reviews of L. Ferrari, F. Ortega-Gutierrez, and P. Schaaf were extremely helpful and much appreciated. This is LPI Contribution No. 1734.

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  1. School of Environment, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

    Victor A. Valencia

  2. NASA Johnson Space Center, Mailcode KT, Houston, TX, 77058, USA

    Kevin Righter

  3. Laboratorio Interinstitucional de Magnetismo Natural, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

    Jose Rosas-Elguera

  4. Centro Universitario de los Valles, Universidad de Guadalajara, Ameca, Mexico

    Jose Rosas-Elguera

  5. Depto. de Geología, CICESE, Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana No 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

    Margarita López-Martínez

  6. Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Marty Grove

  7. Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3600 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, TX, 77058, USA

    Kevin Righter

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Valencia, V.A., Righter, K., Rosas-Elguera, J. et al. The age and composition of the pre-Cenozoic basement of the Jalisco Block: implications for and relation to the Guerrero composite terrane. Contrib Mineral Petrol 166, 801–824 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-013-0908-z

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