Cretaceous-Tertiary detachment surface, Cerro El Vigía, structural block in the Banámichi-San antonio region, central Sonora, Mexico

  • José Luis Rodríguez-Castañeda Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 1039, 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora, México.
Keywords: Detachment surface, Banámichi-San Antonio region, Sonora, Mexico.

Abstract

The Cerro El Vigía, in east-central Sonora, is a structural block that was detached along a major low-angle fault. This fault, La Ramada-Agua Caliente detachment fault, separates an autochthonous early Tertiary igneous complex (the Aconchi batholith) from chaotically deformed Paleozoic and Early Cretaceous strata in Cerro El Vigía… in order to continue, download the full paper in PDF

Published
2018-11-04
Issue
Vol 16 No 1 (1999)
Section
Regular Papers

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