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Hagstrum & Lipman 1991
Hagstrum, J.T. and Lipman, P.W. (1991). Paleomagnetism of three upper Jurassic ash-flow sheets in southeastern Arizona: Implications for regional deformation. Geophysical Research Letters 18: doi: 10.1029/91GL01805. issn: 0094-8276.

A sequence of three petrologically distinct Upper Jurassic ash-flow tuffs has been sampled for paleomagnetic analysis in the Huachuca Mountains, Canelo Hills, and Mustang Mountains of southeastern Arizona. Site-mean paleomagnetic directions from the Colorado Plateau implies that the Jurassic rocks in southeastern Arizona have been rotated in a clockwise sense with respect to stable North America. These new data are consistent with paleomagnetic results showing clockwise rotation of Upper Cretaceous rocks in south central Arizona, and further indicate that studies of North American apparent polar wander based on rocks from southern Arizona could be subjected to error. The clockwise rotations in southern Arizona are likely related to Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary strike-slip movement on Northwest-trending high-angle faults in the region, and this movement may be linked to an increase in oblique Farallon-North American plate convergence at that time. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1991

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Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, Paleomagnetism applied to tectonics, Tectonophysics, Continental tectonics, Tectonophysics, Structural geology (crustal structure and mechanics), Tectonophysics, Plate motions, past and present
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Geophysical Research Letters
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