Trampas Group

Trampas Group
Trampas Group
Stratigraphic range:
	Trampas Group beds in Picuris Mountains
Type	Group
Sub-units	Piedra Lumbre Formation; Pilar Formation
Underlies	Marquenas Formation
Overlies	Ortega Formation
Thickness	1,000 m (3,300 ft)
Lithology
Primary	Schist, phyllite
Other	Quartzite
Location
Coordinates	36.202°N 105.872°W
Region	Picuris Mountains, New Mexico
Country	United States
Type section
Named for	Trampas, New Mexico
Named by	Daniel, Pfeiffer, Jones, and McFarlane
Year defined	2013
	Trampas Group (the United States) Trampas Group (New Mexico)

The Trampas Group is a group of geologic formations that crops out in the Picuris Mountains of northern New Mexico. Detrital zircon geochronology yields a maximum age of 1475 million years, corresponding to the Calymmian period.

Description

The Trampas Group consists of metasedimentary formations deposited in the reactivated Pilar Basin during the Picuris orogeny. Detrital zircon geochronology yields a maximum age of 1475 Mya, considerably younger than the underlying Hondo Group.[1]

The formations included in the Trampas Group are the Pilar Formation, a carbonaceous phyllite, and the Piedra Lumbre Formation, which is primarily feldspathic schist with some quartzite and phyllite.

The Trampas Group likely was deposited in a basin formed during the breakup of the supercontinent of Columbia.[2]

History of investigation

The formations of the Trampas Group were originally included by Bauer and Williams in the Hondo Group as part of their sweeping revision of northern New Mexico Precambrian stratigraphy in 1989.[3] However, detrital zircon geochronology demonstrated that while the lower two formations of the original Hondo Group, the Ortega Formation and the Rinconada Formation, were Statherian in age, the upper two formations, the Pilar Formation and the Piedra Lumbre Formation, were Calymmian in age and they were removed into their own Trampas Group.[1]

References

Daniel, Christopher G.; Pfeifer, Lily S.; Jones, James V, III; McFarlane, Christopher M. (2013). "Detrital zircon evidence for non-Laurentian provenance, Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1490–1450 Ma) deposition and orogenesis in a reconstructed orogenic belt, northern New Mexico, USA: Defining the Picuris orogeny". GSA Bulletin. 125 (9–10): 1423–1441. doi:10.1130/B30804.1. Retrieved 17 April 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Medig, K.P.R.; Thorkelson, D.J.; Davis, W.J.; Rainbird, R.H.; Gibson, H.D.; Turner, E.C.; Marshall, D.D. (August 2014). "Pinning northeastern Australia to northwestern Laurentia in the Mesoproterozoic". Precambrian Research. 249: 88–99. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2014.04.018.
Bauer, Paul W.; Williams, Michael L. (August 1989). "Stratigraphic nomenclature ol proterozoic rocks, northern New Mexico-revisions, redefinitions, and formaliza" (PDF). New Mexico Geology. 11 (3). Retrieved 15 April 2020.

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[dpjm2013-1] Daniel, Christopher G.; Pfeifer, Lily S.; Jones, James V, III; McFarlane, Christopher M. (2013). "Detrital zircon evidence for non-Laurentian provenance, Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1490–1450 Ma) deposition and orogenesis in a reconstructed orogenic belt, northern New Mexico, USA: Defining the Picuris orogeny". GSA Bulletin. 125 (9–10): 1423–1441. doi:10.1130/B30804.1. Retrieved 17 April 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[2] Medig, K.P.R.; Thorkelson, D.J.; Davis, W.J.; Rainbird, R.H.; Gibson, H.D.; Turner, E.C.; Marshall, D.D. (August 2014). "Pinning northeastern Australia to northwestern Laurentia in the Mesoproterozoic". Precambrian Research. 249: 88–99. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2014.04.018.

[bauer-williams-1989-3] Bauer, Paul W.; Williams, Michael L. (August 1989). "Stratigraphic nomenclature ol proterozoic rocks, northern New Mexico-revisions, redefinitions, and formaliza" (PDF). New Mexico Geology. 11 (3). Retrieved 15 April 2020.