Harry Williams, Historical Geology1 HISTORICAL GEOLOGY EARLY CENOZOIC I. EARLY CENOZOIC: (65-1.8 MYBP): Introduction: Much of the landscape as it appears.

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Harry Williams, Historical Geology1 HISTORICAL GEOLOGY EARLY CENOZOIC I. EARLY CENOZOIC: ( MYBP): Introduction: Much of the landscape as it appears today resulted from a number of "land-forming" events of the early Cenozoic.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology2 Paleogene Paleogeography.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology3 Appalachians and Coastal Plains Rockies and Great Plains

Harry Williams, Historical Geology4 Gulf Coast Main area of marine transgressions and regressions during Cenozoic, this, combined with pronounced subsidence, resulted in about m of Paleogene/Neogene sediments underlying the Gulf Coast

Harry Williams, Historical Geology5 East Coast Relatively quite during the Cenozoic. The erosion of the Appalachians continued, producing subdued, rounded mountains (characteristic of ancient mountains). The coastal plain and continental shelf continued to be built from clastics in the northeast and carbonates in the southeast (Florida).

Harry Williams, Historical Geology6 Low, rounded, vegetated mountain ridges in the Appalachians.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology7 East coast coastal plain – dominated by coastal processes and landforms e.g. spits, barriers, beaches, marshes, etc. Cape Fear

Harry Williams, Historical Geology8 Barrier Island Mississippi delta

Harry Williams, Historical Geology9 Bahama Banks

Harry Williams, Historical Geology10 Rockies Continuing uplift and erosion shaped the Rockies into rugged, sharp peaks (characteristic of youthful mountains). In some areas, large fault blocks were pushed up to form mountain ranges, such as the Tetons of Wyoming. Clastics from the erosion spread eastward, forming the Great Plains. Tetons.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology11 West Coast Tectonics Subduction down much of the west coast stopped in the Cenozoic, as the Farallon Plate* and the east Pacific Rise were “swallowed” by the subduction zone. Instead, a transform fault developed about 10 million years ago. Subduction continued to the north (Juan de Fuca plate) and the south (Cocos plate). A number of features are related to these plate movements… * 1 st time we’ve covered the Farallon Plate.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology12 San Andreas Fault Cascades Columbia Plateau Basin and Range Colorado Plateau

Harry Williams, Historical Geology13 San Andreas Fault

Harry Williams, Historical Geology14 The Cascades - volcanic arc. Mt. St. Helens, 1980.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology15 Columbia Plateau - flood basalts resulting from a hot spot.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology16 Basin And Range Province Tensional forces developed in large areas of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and South California during the Cenozoic, probably resulting from the change from subduction to transform fault along the craton margin and heat flow from subduction. The result was basin and range topography, characterized by normal faults, tilted fault blocks, grabens and horsts:

Harry Williams, Historical Geology17 Death Valley, California. Basin Range

Harry Williams, Historical Geology18 Graben and horst.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology19 Tilted fault blocks.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology20 Colorado Plateau A large block of crust in the southwest remained relatively undeformed, but was uplifted during the Cenozoic (5 -10 mybp), forming the Colorado Plateau. Streams cut down into the plateau as it was lifted up, forming deep canyons, including the Grand Canyon (2600 m deep). Magma was released from faults surrounding the uplifted plateau.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology21 Grand Canyon.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology22 Plateaus, mesas, buttes and pinnacles formed by stream erosion of uplifted strata.

Harry Williams, Historical Geology23 Tethys Seaway Closure of the Tethys Seaway was completed during the Cenozoic. Africa collided with Europe about 40 million years ago forming the PYRENEES, between France and Spain, and the ATLAS MOUNTAINS of northwest Africa. As Africa swung around, the collision spread eastward, forming the ALPS of southern Europe. Areas of the Alps are still undergoing periodic uplift today (the collision continues). Further east, India collided with Asia about 10 million years ago, forming the HIMALAYAS (the top of Mt. Everest is marine limestone); these mountains are also continuing to rise – frequent earthquakes in India/China attest to the continuing movement. These orogenies created a long linear zone of mountains running east – west across Europe and Asia.

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