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JURASSIC OROGENY IN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS: A GEOCHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

'-Bradley R. Hacker W. G. Ernst

Department of Geology School of Earth Sciences

Stanford University Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-2115 Stanford, CA 94305-2110

ABSTRACT others, 1985; Mortimer, 1985; Zucca and

others, 1986; Fuis and others, 1987).

The Jurassic growth of Klamath Klamath terranes shown in Figure 1 generally

continental crust from oceanic materials has have east-dipping bedding and foliation and

conventionally been considered the result of west-vergent folds; most are s~parated by

two discrete orogenies, the "Siskiyou" and west-directed thrust faults. Terranes

"Nevadan". Geochronologic data are now related to the main theme of this paper are

numerous enough to begin to recognize that described below.

the metamorphic and deformational episodes

are instead a broad continuum of events whose The basis for this paper is the

characteristics varied in place and time and radiometric ages listed in Table 1 and Figure

were closely linked with areas of active 2. All zircon ages summarized here for

magmatism. Magmatism was widespread at -200 igneous rocks have been interpreted as

Ma, and by -170 Ma, led to the construction crystallization ages. On the other hand,

of two enormous volcanoplutonic arcs, the K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar ages generally are minimum

Western Hayfork and North Fork-Salmon River. ages for the crystallization cf plutonic

Northwest-southeast extension in the northern rocks because entrapment of argon in crystals

Klamaths from 167-155 Ma was coincident with occurs considerably below solidus

the crystallization of voluminous plutonic temperatures. Crystallization times of

and volcanic rocks of the Wooley Creek and rapidly cooled hypabyssal and volcanic rocks

Western Klamath suites. Sudden cooling of a are more closely reflected in K/Ar and

large region of the central Klamath Mountains 40Ar/39Ar ages--provided that the rocks have

to -300°C at -150 Ma may have occurred as the not undergone reheating sufficient to

magmatic belt was extinguished by subduction liberate argon. Closure temperatures, or the

of colder material at deeper structural temperature of a mineral at the time

levels. represented by its apparent age (Dodson,

1973), are approximately 500-525uC (Harrison,

INTRODUCTION 1981), 400-425°C (summary in Hodges, 1991),

and 310-345°C (Harrison and others, 1985),

The Klamath Mountains provide a well- for rapidly cooled hornblende, muscovite, and

studied archetype of continental lithosphere biotite, respectively. Closure temperatures

constructed largely from oceanic material. may be affected by factors such as cooling

Since the inception of the terrane concept in rate (Dodson, 1973), composition (Harrison

the Klamaths (Irwin, 1972), much debate has and others, 1985; Scaillet and others, 1992),

centered on whether the terranes are exotic exsolution (Harrison and Fitz Gerald, 1986;

with respect to the rest of western North Baldwin and others, 1990), alteration

America or formed more-or-less in situ (Davis (Onstott and Pringle-Goodell, 1988; Baldwin

and others, 1978; Wright, 1982; Gray, 1986). and others, 1990), and grain size (Kelley,

Hamilton (1978) suggested that Jurassic 1988). Of potential relevance to this study,

magmatic belts in the Klamaths represent exsolution may reduce hornblende closure

distinct far-traveled arcs, whereas Davis and temperature by more than 100°C (Baldwin and

others (1978) postulated that a single others, 1990). We have no~ detected

Jurassic arc developed in situ. This paper exsolution in any Klamath hornblendes studied

presents preliminary geochronology for by back-scattered electron microscopy, but

Jurassic magmatic and related metamorphic this does not preclude its existence.

rocks in the central Klamath Mountains that,

coupled with extensive earlier geochronologic Western Klamath Terrane

studies in the western Klamaths (Table 1),

reinforces the latter model, and allows a The western Klamath terrane consists of

revised tectonic scenario for the Jurassic the Josephine ophiolite, Galice Formation,

evolution of the Klamath Mountains. Rogue Formation, and Chetco complex. The

Rogue Formation and Chetco complex are

The overall structure of the Klamath interpreted as a Middle to Late Jurassic

Mountains is a stack of gently east-dipping (Table 1, c15-c20) immature arc (Garcia,

thrust sheets (Irwin, 1966; Blakely and 1979, 1982); plutonic rocks include the

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Chetco River complex, Illinois River gabbro, been active during the final stages of arcand Rum Creek metagabbro (Saleeby, 1990). volcanoplutonism (Harper and others, 1993).The Josephine ophiolite (Harper, 1980) is The Josephine ophiolite and Rogue/Chetco arcMiddle Jurassic in age (Table 1, c10-c14). are both depositionally overlain by theIt overlies the Rogue/Chetco arc along a Ga+ice Formation (Harper, 1980; Harper andregional thrust fault, the Madstone thrust, Wright, 1984), which consists of Oxfordian(Harper and others, 1993) interpreted to have radiolarian chert grading up'Nard into

Kimmeridgian flysch (pessagno and Blome,1990). The Galice Formation, RogueFormation, and Josephine ophiolite are all

Cretaceous cut by dikes/sills that yield ages as youngwd as -150 Ma (Table 1, e6-e22). Spinel,

younger staurolite, garnet, and blue-amphibolerocks detritus in the Galice Formation suggests

that Galice sediments were derived fromsources in more easterly Kla.~ath terranes(Davis and others, 1978; Saleeby and others,1982). The Galice Formation anddepositionally underlying Rogue/Chetco arcand Josephine ophiolite therefore are notfar-traveled with respect to the rest of theKlamaths (Davis and others, 1978; cf. Wrightand Wyld, 1986).

Preston Peak OphioliteThe Preston Peak ophiolite comprises

greenschist-facies tholeiitic plutons, dikes,breccias and pillowed flows that intrude andunconformably overlie serpentinizedultramafic tectonite with included blocks ofamphibolite (Snoke, 1977; Snoke and others,1981; Saleeby and others, 1982). Theultramafic tectonite, and possibly theamphibolite, are inferred to be part of theRattlesnake Creek terrane (see below). Alate-stage plagiogranite dike in dioriteyielded a 164X1 Ma zircon age (Table 1, c21),

F . and chert overlying the flows containsranclscan J ' d . 1 , (S 1 b d hC I urass~c ra ~o ar~ans a ee y an ot ers,ompex 1982). One contact-metamorphosed amphibolite

block yielded a K/Ar hornblende age of 165x3Ma (Table 1, c22), whereas amphibolitedistant from plutons produced 190 and 193 Maages (Table 1, a17-a18). Rocks possiblycorrelative with the Preston Peak ophiolite(near little Grayback Mountain; Gorman, 1985)contain Jurassic radiolarians (Saleeby andothers, 1982) and Late Triassic conodonts(Irwin and others, 1983).

Condrey Mountain Terrane

The Condrey Mountain terrane is inN f similar structural position to the Western

Klamath terrane, but is a transitional

greenschist-blueschist facies subductionGreat complex with a greenschist facies overprint

50km Valley (Helper, 1986). The protolith age of part ofGroup the Condrey Mountain terrane is bracketed to

near 170 Ma by zircon ages (Table 1, b10-. ,b12). Rb/Sr and K/Ar ages indicate that

F~gure 1. Klamath ro~k un~ts (after cooling of the Condrey Mountain terrane belowBlake and others, 1982; Sm~th and others, -350°C was delayed until Early Cretaceous1982; Ernst, 1990; Hacker and others, 1993). time (125-132 Ma; Helper and others 1989).Plutons discussed in text are shown. Main '

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Marble Mountain terrane, consists of mafic 1985; Wright and Wyld, 1985). Inasmuch astectonite and ophiolitic melange overlain by the beginning' of the Early Jurassic (201:i:2coherent, undeformed volcaniclastic rocks Ma; Hodych and Dunning, 1992) sign~ficantly(Wright, 1981; Petersen, 1982; Hill, 1984; postdates 212 Ma, these reported ageRawson, 1984; Gorman, 1985; Gray, 1985; relationships are paradoxical.Wright and Wyld, 1986; Donato, 1987). Irwin(1972) interpreted the Rattlesnake Creek The Rattlesnake Creek terrane served asterrane as a dismembered ophiolite. rift basement for the Rogue/Chetco arc

(Harper and Wright, 1984; Saleeby, 1984),The melange contains blocks derived Josephine ophiolite (Wyld and Wright, 1988),

from ophiolitic as well as continental Preston Peak ophiolite (Saleeby and others,sources. Ultramafic blocks retain high- 1982), and possibly the Western Hayforktemperature fabrics that predate their (Wright and Fahan, 1988) and Salmon Riverincorporation into the melange (Medaris, arcs (see below).1966; Rawson, 1984; Donato, 1987). Maficblocks within the melange include massive Western Hayfork terraneamphibolite (Hill, 1984) and hypabyssal-plutonic complexes, some of which were The Western Hayfork terrane is a Middledeformed during crystallization (Klein, 1977; Jurassic (167-177 Ma; Table 1, b1-b7)Petersen, 1982). Zircons from plagiogranite immature intraoceanic arc that consists ofcutting one block of dikes at China Peak gave gabbroic to quartz-monzodioritic calc-an age of 172:i:2 Ma (Table 1, b14). Trace alkaline plutons intruding >6 km ofelements indicate that mafic igneous rocks in consanguineous volcaniclastic rocks andthe Rattlesnake terrane have affinities with depositionally overlying epiclastic rocksimmature arc and mid-ocean ridge basalts (Fig 3; Klein, 1975; Cashman, 1979; Charlton. '(FJ.g. 3). Chert blocks in the melange 1979; Hill, 1984; Rawson, 1984; Wright andcontain radiolarians ranging from Middle Fahan, 1988). Fossils include Silurian coralTriassic to Early or Middle Jurassic age, and and Early Permian gastropods ir. limestonelimestone blocks bear Devonian(?) coral to cobbles derived from the McCloud limestone ofLate Triassic conodonts (Irwin, 1972, 1985b; the Eastern Klamaths, and Triassic orIrwin and others, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1985; Jurassic radiolarians in chert (Irwin, 1972,Gray, 1985). The Devonian(?) fossil coral is 1985b; Fahan, 1982; Irwin and others, 1982;significant because it is similar to coral Wright, 1982). The McCloud fauna indicatesfound in sedimentary strata in the Eastern that the Western Hayfork terrane formed nearKlamaths, and thus ties provenance of the the eastern K1amaths, and hence is not exoticRattlesnake Creek terrane to the Eastern (Harper and Wright, 1984).Klamath terrane (Irwin, 1972).

Sawyers Bar terraneThe coherent volcaniclastic unit

overlying the melange contains -350 m of Ernst (1990) and Hacker and othersconglomerate, arenite and tuff deposited (1993) reported that several Klamath unitssubaerially proximal to a volcano (Rawson, previously termed terranes, the Eastern1984; Gray, 1985, 1986). Trace element Hayfork, Salmon River, and North Fork, areabundances indicate that the volcano was part not wholly fault-bounded units, and thereforeof an immature arc (Fig. 3). The do not warrant terrane status. In addition,relationship between the melange and the well-bedded, coherent chert formerly includedcoherent volcaniclastic suite is of as part of the North Fork unit was given aconsiderable tectonic import, yet it has not separate name, the St Claire Creek unit. Allbeen well documented. Petersen (1982) and four units were grouped as the Sawyers BarGray (1985) state that the contact is not terrane (Ernst, 1990). Hacker and othersexposed. Moreover, although plutons ranging (1993) provisionally interpreted ~he Sawyersin age from 192 to 208 Ma intrude the Bar terrane to represent a vo1canop1utonicserpentinite-matrix melange of the arc (North Fork and Salmon River units), andRattlesnake Creek terrane in the Somes Bar associated fore-arc accretionary wedgearea (Gray, 1985), plutons explicitly (Eastern Hayfork unit) and back-arc basin (Stintruding the volcaniclastic unit in that Claire Creek unit).area have not been dated. A preliminaryreport by Wright and Wy1d (1985) mentioned ~R~rprn HR~fork Unitthat plutons as old as 212 Ma do cutvolcaniclastic rocks that lie depositiona1ly The Eastern Hayfork unit vari~s fromon melange in the southernmost(?) K1amaths. broken formation to melange and isIf depositional on melange, the interpreted to represent an accretionaryvolcanic'astic rocks must be older than 212 wedge (Wright, 1981). The non-exoticMa but must also postdate Late Triassic (plausibly interbedded) component of thelimestone blocks in the melange (Gray, 1986). Eastern Hayfork includes rocks grading fromEarly Jurassic radiolarians must have been radiolarian chert to tuff, pillow lava, andmixed into the Rattlesnake Creek melange at a quartzose turbidites (Cashman, 1979;later date, otherwise the volcaniclastic Charlton, 1979; Fahan, 1982; Wright, 1982;rocks would have to postdate them too (Gray, Hacker and others, 1993). Tuffaceous

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material and clastic volcanogenic rocks are Limestone blocks in the Eastern HayforKsubordinate to detritus derived from contain Silurian or Devonian through Latecontinental or plutonic provenances. Exotic Triassic shallow water fossils, includingblocks include ultramafic rock, basalt, Late Permian Tethyan fusulinids and coralgabbro, limestone, amphibolite, blueschist, (I~win, 1972, 1974, 1985b; Cox and Pratt,quartzofeldspathic schist, recrystallized 1973; Irwin and others, 1977, 1983; Gray,chert, and crenulated quartz-mica schist 1986; Miller and Wright, 1987; Stevens and(Cox, 1956; Cashman, 1979; Charlton, 1979; others, 1987, 1991). Eastern Hayfork chertBurton, 1982; Fahan, 1982; Wright, 1982). contains Late Permian, Middle Triassic, LateCashman and Wright suggested that the Triassic, and Late Triassic to Early Jurassicmetamorphic blocks were derived from the more radiolarians, and Middle Triassic and Lateeasterly Stuart Fork and Central Metamorphic Triassic conodonts, implying Late Permian toterranes; this suggestion has been Early Jurassic deposition (Irwin and others,strengthened by geochronologic work of Goodge 1982, 1983; Ando and others, 1983; Irwin,and Renne (1991, 1993). 1985b).

TiO2 Rattlesnake Creek Terrane Ti/100

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Figure 3. Tectonomagmatic discrimination diagrams after Pearce and Cann (1973) and Mullen(1983). Note that the hypabyssal and volcanic rocks of the Salmon River unit are similar to theWestern Hayfork and Rattlesnake Creek terrane, respectively. MORB: mid-ocean ridge basalt; OIB:ocean-island basalt; VAB: intraoceanic arc basalt; CAB: continental arc basalt; WPB: within-plate basalt. Data from Charlton (1979), Wright (1981), Petersen (1982), Hill (1984), Donato(1985), Gorman (1985), Gray (1985), Wyld and Wright (1988), Ernst (1987), Ernst and others(1991), Hacker and others (1993), and Barnes (pers. comm., 1990). j

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Quartzose blocks contain detrital because of its ophiolitic rock types (Irwin,zircons with Pb/Pb ages of 2.0-2.1 Ga, 1972), and h'as since been suggested toindicating that some debris was ultimately represent a seamount complex (Ando, 1979).derived from a mature Precambrian continental Hacker and others (1993) presented ansource (Miller and Saleeby, 1991). Trace- ai~ernative interpretation--that the Northelement abundances of Eastern Hayfork Fork is an alkalic part of the Salmon Riversedimentary rocks suggest that material was immature arc. The volcanic rocks are massivealso derived from the adjacent North Fork- to amygdaloidal breccias with angular toSalmon River arc (Hacker and others, 1993). subangular clasts, tuffaceous chert, pillowedThe discovery of the same Late Permian _flows, _pill,Q~- breccias, a~Q--.h-Y~loclastites.Tethyan fossils in the Eastern Klamath Limestone beds or exotic(?) blocks containterrane and Eastern Hayfork unit (Stevens and fusulinids and foraminifers of Carboniferousothers, 1987) implies that the limestone to Early Permian age (Irwin, 1972, 1974;blocks are olistoliths derived from eastern Irwin and others, 1977).paleo-Pacific seamounts (Miller and Wright,1987) or from the Eastern Klamath terrane. The igneous crystallization age of the

North Fork volcanics may be as young as 165Salmon Rivpr Tln;r Ma, based on Ar/Ar ages obtained on

hornblende from two dikes (Table 1, c24-c25).The Salmon River unit includes Sedimentary rocks of the Eastern Hayfork unit

ultramafic rock, gabbro, diabase, and interbedded with the North Fork range in agevolcanic rock, and was initially interpreted from Late Permian to Late Triassic. Lateas oceanic crust (Irwin, 1972; Blake and Permian fossils are present in limestoneothers, 1982; Ando and others, 1983; intercalated with the North Fork volcanics,Mortimer, 1984). Recent field mapping, and the interbedded St Claire Creek unitwhole-rock analyses, and mineral analyses contains Late Permian to Early Jurassicprovided the basis for Ernst and others fossils. The oldest pluton intruding the(1991) to propose genesis as an immature North Fork is the Vesa Bluffs pluton (~165 Maintraoceanic arc instead. Massive and Table 1, c9). Thus, eruption is poorlylocally pillowed volcanic rocks with thin constrained to within Late Permian to Middlevolcaniclastic layers contain igneous Jurassic time.clinopyroxene, hornblende, and plagioclase,with minor spinel, apatite, and possibly St Clairp ~rppk Tln;ranorthoclase; carbonate and chert are presentbetween pillows (Cox, 1956; Ando, 1979; This unit, informally named by HackerMortimer, 1984; Ernst and others, 1991). and others (1993), is characterized byMetavolcanic rocks have trace element chiefly coherent, bedded chert with minorabundances appropriate for immature argillite (this study; Ando, 1979; Wright,tholeiitic arc rocks, whereas younger, 1981; Mortimer, 1984) unlike the disrupted,recrystallized microdioritic dikes and sills argillite-dominated sequences of ~he Easterntend to be calc-alkaline (Fig. 3; Ernst, Hayfork unit. Previously this unit was1993). included as part of the North Fork unit,

which it overlies depositionally (Trexler,Fossil ages of interbedded Eastern 1968; Ando and others, 1983); earlier workers

Hayfork sedimentary rocks suggest that postulated that this section t"epresentedconstruction of the Salmon River suite began open-ocean sediments (Davis and others, 1978;in Permian and extended through Late Triassic Ando, 1979; Wright, 1982). Hacker and otherstime. Plagiogranite within diabase yielded a (1993) separated this sedjment-dominated unitstrongly discordant Pb/U zircon age from the alkalic volcanic rocks of the Northinterpreted to indicate crystallization in Fork unit. The new unit name emphasizes thatthe range 265-310 Ma (Pennsylvanian to the Salmon River and North Fork unitsPermian; Ando and others, 1983). A gabbro interfinger and are interbedded with twobody that intrudes the diabase gave a distinctly different types of sedimentary40Ar/39Ar isochron age of 200 Ma on igneous rock: disrupted chert-argillite of thehornblende (Table 1, a9). Two mafic outboard Eastern Hayfork and coherent well-hypabyssal rocks in the Salmon River unit bedded chert-argillite of the inboard Styielded Ar/Ar hornblende ages of -174 Ma Claire Creek unit.(Table 1, b15-b16). These data are St Claire Creek chert contains Lateinterpreted to indicate the presence of an Permian through Early to Middle Jurassicarc as young as Middle Jurassic built in radiolarians, and Middle Permian and Lateoceanic basement as old as Permian. Triassic conodonts (Irwin and others, 1977,

1982; Lindsley-Griffin and Griffin, 1983;North Fork UniT Mortimer, 1984). It includes fragments of

plagioclase, quartz, clinopyroxene, brownThe North Fork unit comprises up to 2 hornblende, chlorite, muscovite, and

km of amygdaloidal volcanic rocks with rare carbonaceous material (Cox and Pratt, 1973;limestone layers and massifs (Ando, 1979; Wright, 1981). Sandstone and argilliteWright, 1981; Mortimer, 1984). It was turbidites interlayered with the chertinitially interpreted as oceanic crust contain crystals of quartz, plagioclase, rare

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potassium feldspar, and clasts of argillite, Earliest,Jurassic Events (-200 Ma)chert, recrystallized chert, mica schist,volcanic rock, and Permian McCloud limestone Recognition that volcanoplutonism of(Fahan, 1982; wright, 1982; Gray, 1986). The earliest Jurassic time (-200 Ma) wascomposition and mineralogy of the detritus widespread in the Klamath Mountains is anindicates that the St Claire Creek unit is important contribution of this paper. Mostnative to the Klamaths and was derived from plutons of this age crop out in thesources similar to those providing sediment Rattlesnake Creek terrane (Fig. 4a), where

'to the Eastern Hayfork unit (Wright, 1982). they range in zircon age from 192 to 212 Ma--with somewhat younger K/Ar hornblende ages

Stuart Fork Terrane (Table 1, a1-a8). Plutons of probable pre-Middle Jurassic age also crop out in the

The Stuart Fork terrane is a subduction Salmon River unit of the Sawyers Bar terranecomplex composed of hemipelagic shale, chert, (Cox, 1956; Ando and others, 198:i), and oneand basaltic rocks metamorphosed to of these bodies at Horse Mountain (Fig. 4a)blueschist facies during Late Triassic time has been dated as 200 Ma (Table 1, 39). This(Hotz, 1977; Hotz and others, 1977; Goodge, is significant, for it z;aises the possibility1989). Detrital feldspars in the sedimentary that plutonic and volcanic rocks in therocks indicate proximity to a craton or Salmon River unit might be equivalent to themagmatic arc. Trace element abundances coherent volcaniclastic section and intrudingsuggest that the volcanic rocks are back-arc plutons in the Rattlesnake Creek terrane.basin basalts (Goodge, 1990). Trace-element abundances shown in Figure 3

support this possibility. !'he Lems RidgeEastern Klamath Terrane olistostrome, spatially associated with the

Josephine ophiolite, also contains gabbroThe Eastern Klamath terrane contains clasts of this age, and may rest

>10 km of Devonian to Jurassic sedimentary depositionally on -200 Ma basement as welland volcanic strata formed chiefly in an (Table 1, zll-z17; Ohr, 1987; Harper andintra-oceanic arc. Rocks of Late Permian and others, 1993). Roughly 200 Ma wetaplutonicpossibly Early Triassic age are absent rocks in the Rogue/Chetco arc and Preston(Miller and Harwood, 1990). The Pit Peak ophiolite support the presence ofFormation of Early (Noble and Renne, 1990) to Rattlesnake Creek terrane as rift basement toLate Triassic (Albers and Robertson, 1961) those units as well (Table 1, a17-a22).age is composed of flows and tuffaceous rocksoverlain by shales and chert (Sanborn, 1960; Western Hayfork Age Events (177-167 Ma)Noble and Renne, 1990). Upper Triassic(Carnian) Hosselkus Limestone and Brock Shale The hallmark volcanoplutonism of earlyrecord shallow-water and basinal Middle Jurassic age is the Western Hayforksedimentation with distal volcanic input terrane (Fig. 4b). As discussed earlier,(Sanborn, 1960), whereas the Upper Triassic plutons in the Western Hayfork terrane proper(Rhaetian) Modin Formation records the (the Ironside Mountain suite) yieldresumption of influx of proximal volcanic crystallization ages of 169-171 Ma, anddetritus (Miller and Harwood, 1990). An volcaniclastic rocks have K/Ar hornblendeunconformity may (Sanborn, 1960) or may not ages of 168-177 Ma (Table 1, b1-b7). Plutons(Renne and Scott, 1988) be present below of similar composition and age outside thepyroclastic beds and minor flows of the Lower Western Hayfork terrane include the DennyJurassic (Pliensbachian-Sinemurian) Arvison Complex and Forks of Salmon pluton (Table 1,Formation. The Mesozoic section ends with b8-b9). Two dikes within the Salmon Riverargillite and tuffaceous sandstone of the unit also fall in this category (Table 1,Lower to Middle (Bajocian-Toarcian) Jurassic b15-b16). This is significant, becausePotem Formation (Sanborn, 1960). Faulting hypabyssal and volcanic rocks in the Westernand folding in the Eastern Klamath terrane Hayfork and Salmon River suites might thus bepostdated deposition of Bajocian strata and part of the same volcanoplutonic arc. Figurepredated -164-170 Ma plutons (Renne and 3 indicates that hypabyssal rocks in theScott, 1988). Salmon River unit are indistinguishable from

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westernmost Klamaths, and consist exclusivelyThe Wooley Creek intrusive suite of dikes and small plutons (Table 1, el-e24;

(Irwin, 1985a; Barnes and others, 1992) Fig. 4e). Near concordance ofconstitutes a group of granitic to gabbroic crystallization (zircon) and coolingcalc-alkaline plutons (Slinkard, Wooley (hornblende and mica) ages indicate rapidCreek, English Peak, Russian Peak, and Vesa cooling of these plutons to -300°C within 5Bluffs) that range in igneous crystallization m.y. after emplacement (Fig. 2). Metamorphicage from 165-159 Ma (Table 1, c2-c9; Fig. cooling ages of 148-152 Ma from amphibolite-4c). Coeval volcanic rocks have not been facies rocks occur in the Josephine sole andrecognized, but may include parts of the throughout the Rattlesnake Creek terraneSalmon River unit. The Heather Lake pluton's (Fig. 4e; Table 1, e25-e57). Many hornblende167-Ma Ar/Ar hornblende age suggests that it and mica Ar/Ar and K/Ar ages from thetoo is part of this suite (Table 1, cl). Rattlesnake Creek terrane are concordant,Dikes in the North Fork and Salmon River suggesting rapid cooling of the metamorphicunits also have comparable Ar/Ar hornblende rocks to -300°C. K/Ar ages indicate thatages (Table 1, c24-c26). Irwin (1985a) several plutons of the Wooley Creek suiteincluded the Ashland pluton in the Wooley also cooled through amphibolite-faciesCreek suite, but Ar/Ar ages suggest it may be conditions at this time (Fig. 2).younger. Volcanoplutonism of similar ageoccurred farther west in the Klamath Cretaceous EventsMountains, including formation of the PrestonPeak and Josephine ophiolites and the Latest Jurassic and earliest CretaceousRogue/Chetco arc (Table 1, cl0-c22). Igneous time saw a return to widely distributedactivity of this age is restricted to a NW- magmatism (Fig. 4f). Many weaklytrending corridor. Plutons and volcanic metamorphosed dikes and plutons of this agerocks in the corridor are elongate to the NE intrude the Klamath Mountains (Table 1, fl-and SW, suggesting NW-SE subhorizontal f23). This has two significant implications:extension. The southern edge of the extended not only did arc magmatism continue untilcorridor is the Salmon tectonic line of Irwin approximately 135 Ma, but metamorphism of the(1985a, 1989), but a northern, potentially country rock probably lasted into Earlymore convoluted, boundary has not been Cretaceous time (see also Harper and others,recognized or named. Both boundaries were 1993). Additional evidence for significantpresumably transfer zones accommodating heat retention into Cretaceous time comesdifferential subhorizontal extension, as from the Condrey Mountain terrane (Fig. 1),hypothesized for the Garlock fault in which yielded muscovite K/Ar ages of 125-143southern California (Davis and Burchfiel, Ma and Rb-Sr isochron ages of 125-139 Ma1973). This hypothesis might be tested by (Helper and others, 1989).measuring the orientation of comagmatic dikesassociated with calc-alkaline plutons in the DEFORMATIONcorridor and by investigating the structureof the Salmon tectonic line. Intraterrane deformation reveals

aspects of the tectonic setting of individualLate Jurassic Events (-155 Ma) units, whereas interterrane deformation

provides information about the large-scalePlutonic and volcanic rocks of -155 Ma construction of the orogen. The emphasis

are also restricted to a particular part of here is on the latter (Fig. 1). Motion onthe Klamaths (Fig. 4d). The area is north of major faults structurally above theslightly older Wooley Creek type events, Rattlesnake Creek terrane was Middle Jurassicindicating northward migration of magmatism (or earlier in the eastern Klamaths), whereasand continued NW-directed extension. Rocks movement of faults farther down section (moreof this age include the Thompson Ridge westerly) was Late Jurassic (Wright andpluton, Grayback pluton, Ashland pluton, and Fahan, 1988; Harper and others, 1993).Rum Creek metagabbro (Table 1, dl-d3, d13).Hypabyssal rocks of this age intrude the Displacement on the Siskiyou faultNorth Fork, Stuart Fork, Eastern Hayfork, placed the Central Metamorphic terrnne ~25 kmSalmon River, Rogue, and Josephine units over the Stuart Fork and North Fork units(Table 1, d5-d13). The 155-Ma magmatism may (Davis and others, 1965; Goodge, 1990).simply represent a northward shift of the Movement postdated deposition of Early totectonic activity responsible for the Western Middle Jurassic chert in the North Fork unitKlamath/Wooley Creek magmatism. and predated emplacement of the 159-Ma

Russian Peak pluton (Table 1, cl; Fig. 2).Latest Jurassic Events (-150 Ma)

Displacement of the Stuart Fork terraneYet another notable change happened in over the Sawyers Bar terrane on the Soap

the Klamath Mountains at 152-148 Ma, but in Creek Ridge thrust (Hotz, 1977) exceeds 35 kmthis case, the evidence comes from (Coleman and others, 1988). Movement alongmetamorphic cooling ages as well as from this fault predated cooling of the Vesa

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Bluffs pluton at 165 Ma (Table 1, c9) and Ma, whereas Rb/Sr and K/Ar ages indicate thatpostdated Middle Jurassic chert deposition the lower plate cooled through similar(Mortimer, 1984) in the footwall (Fig. 2). temperatures -20 Ma later (Helper and others,These constraints, and those for the Siskiyou 1989). Rapid refrigeration of the upperfault, apply rigorously only to the central plate and prolonged cooling of the lowerKlamaths between about 41°N and 42°N. plate may be related to thrusting of the

Condrey Mountain terrane beneath thePlutons of the Western Hayfork terrane Rattlesnake Creek terrane (Harper and others,

were crystallizing while that unit was thrust 1993).beneath the Sawyers Bar terrane along theWilson Point fault (Wright and Fahan, 1988), The Josephine ophiolite was thrust in aeffectively constraining the age of faulting NNE direction over the still-activeto -170 Ma (Fig. 2); displacement is at least Rogue/Chetco arc on the Madstone thrust20 km. between 146 and 152 Ma (Harper and others,

1990, 1993).The Salt Creek fault accommodated -60

km of displacement of the Western Hayfork Most of the aforementioned faults areover the Rattlesnake Creek terrane (Coleman demonstrably thrust faults that place higherand others, 1988), and postdated pressure and temperature rocks over lowercrystallization of the 169 Ma Chanchelulla pressure and temperature assemblages. SomePeak pluton (Table 1, h4; Wright and Fahan, major faults in the Klamat~ Mountains,1988). The cessation of faulting is not however, may have had normal-senseunambiguously constrained, but may have been displacement for at least part of theirprior to crystallization of the Denny Complex history. In the Marble Mountains, theat 167 Ma (Fig 4c; Wright and Fahan, 1988). typical north-south structural grain ofThese constraints, and those for the Wilson Klamath terranes is broken by an east-westPoint fault, apply only to the Klamaths south trending contact between amphibolite-faciesof about 41°N. Rattlesnake Creek terrane to the north and

greenschist-facies Sawyers Bar terrane to theThe Rattlesnake Creek terrane south (Donato and others, 1982). We

(including the Preston Peak ophiolite) lies tentatively suggest that this structure, thestructurally above the Condrey Mountain Marble Mountains fault (Hacker and others,terrane along the Condrey fault, and on top 1992), is a south-dipping normal fault. Theof the Josephine ophiolite and Galice Western Hayfork terrane, which is normallyFormation along the Orleans fault. If the present as a thrust sheet between theOrleans and Condrey faults are the same Rattlesnake Creek and Sawyers Bar terranes,structure, modeling of gravity data indicates appears to have been excised along thisthat the Orleans/Condrey fault dips 10-25° structure; thus -5 km of structural thicknesseast and has -100 km of displacement (Jachens may have been cut out. In addition toand others, 1986). Displacement on the changes in rock type and metamorphic grade,Orleans fault was toward the WNW, occurred the fault is marked by changes in foliationprior to crystallization of the 150-Ma Summit orientation and Ar/Ar cooling ages. Ar/ArValley pluton (Harper and others, 1990), and hornblende, biotite, and muscovitemust postdate the Kimmeridgian Galice metamorphic ages north of the fault clusterFormation in the footwall. The Condrey fault tightly between 148 and 152 Ma (Figs. 2 andplaces high-temperature rocks of the 4). South of the structure, Ar/Ar igneousRattlesnake Creek terrane over low- ages range from 175 to 140 Ma, and resettingtemperature rocks of the Condrey Mountain of Ar isotopes during metamorphism is notterrane. The fault zone preserves a -l-km- apparent. Foliation undergoes a markedthick inverted metamorphic gradient from change from steep ESE dips south of the faultgreenschist upward into partially melted to gentle and moderate southward or eastwardamphibolite (Medaris, 1966; Barrows, 1969; dips to the north (Welsh, 1982; Donato, 1985;Burton, 1982). Gravity measurements suggest Ernst, 1987; Hacker, unpublished data).that the Condrey fault detached the Wooley Rocks on both sides of the fault are intrudedCreek, Slinkard, and Vesa Bluffs plutons by greenschist-facies metatholeiitic dikes(Barnes,. 1982; Barnes and others, 1986; (Donato, 1985) that must postdate 150-MaJachens and others, 1986). Syn-thrusting amphibolite-facies metamorphism. The Marbleleucosomes formed at the base of the Mountains fault postdated 172 Ma dikes in theRattlesnake Creek terrane during intrusion of Rattlesnake Creek terrane (Table 1, b14) andthe Slinkard pluton; this suggests active predated intrusion of the 161-Ma ~loo1ey Creekfaulting at 161 Ma (Saleeby, 1990). Gneissic batholith (Table 1, c6). If the Westernamphibolite from within the Condrey fault Hayfork terrane was excised along the fault,zone yielded an Ar/Ar hornblende cooling age faulting must also postdate that 167-170 Maof 152z1 Ma, suggesting that amphibolite- period of magmatism (Fig. 2). The Marblefacies metamorphism and coincident thrusting Mountains fault may be exposed in moreended by that time (Harper and others, 1993). northerly parts of the Klamath Mountains tooWidespread hornblende Ar/Ar and scattered (Fig. 4c).mica Ar/Ar ages in the upper plate of theCondrey thrust suggest rapid cooling at -150

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SISKIYOU AND NEVADAN OROGENIES metamorphic ,pressures (Burton, 1982;Chambers, 1983; Rawson, 1984; Barnes and

Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks others, 1986; Lieberman and Rice, 1986;overlying deformed Upper Jurassic rocks led Donato, 1989) substantiate the suggestionBlackwelder (1914) to suggest that a that the Siskiyou event occur~-ed within an"Nevadian" orogeny affected the Sierra Nevada active magmatic arc (Coleman and others,and Klamath Mountains. The Nevadan orogeny 1988).in the Klamaths involved thrusting along theMadstone and Orleans faults (Harper and The Siskiyou metamorphic event can noothers 1990), deformation of Galice longer be conveniently pigeonholed into aFormation as young as Kimmeridgian, and narrow time frame--the advectively suppliedwidespread metamorphism (Donato, 1985; Hill, heat requisite for metamorphism was probably1985). The minimum age of the Nevadan spatially and temporally variable, as befitsorogeny is -130 Ma, based on undeformed igneous activity in an arc. For example,Valanginian sedimentary rocks that overlie amphibolite-facies metamorphism probablymetamorphosed units (Hinds, 1934; Sliter and began at 167 Ma around the Heather Lakeothers, 1984; Blake and others, 1985). Hinds pluton and perhaps as late as 161 Ma around(1934) considered all Nevadan activity to the Wooley Creek pluton, but the areapostdate the Mariposa Formation in the Sierra immediately north of both igneous bodiesNevada. The Galice Formation, the Klamath remained above greenschist faciesequivalent of the Mariposa, is as young as temperatures until 150 Ma. South of theKimmeridgian (pessagno and Blome, 1990); this Salmon tectonic line (Fig. 4c), the Siskiyouwould bracket the age of orogeny as -155-130 event apparently was restricted to the timeMa. When isotopic data were first collected of Western Hayfork magmatism, or -167-170 Ma(Lanphere and others, 1968), however, it (Wyld and Wright, 1988). North of the Salmonbecame clear that plutons initially deemed tectonic line, the Siskiyou event lastedpart of the Nevadan orogeny (Hinds, 1934) longer due to the heat provided by numerouswere as old as Middle Jurassic. Lanphere and Middle and Late Jurassic plutons. Note thatothers thus pushed the age of the Nevadan this north-south difference in the Siskiyouorogeny back to Middle Jurassic. Harper and event may be due to the exposure of deeperWright (1984) initially bracketed the age of structural levels in the north, rather thanthe Nevadan orogeny between 147 and 150 Ma on to any contrast in magmatic activity.the basis of deformed dikes in the GaliceFormation as young as 150 Ma, and undeformed Thus, at this time, it seemsplutons as old as 147 Ma. More recently, appropriate to abandon attempts to date the(Harper and others, 1993) extended the "Nevadan" and "Siskiyou" orogenies as thoughNevadan orogeny to 135 Ma, based on cooling they were distinct thermotectonic events thatages of deformed plutons and dikes. occurred synchronously throughout the

mountain range, and to focus instead onThere is also evidence of metamorphism characterizing the ages and other

and deformation in the Klamaths well before characteristics of the deformation,the Nevadan orogeny (Wright and Fahan, 1988). metamorphism, and volcanoplutonism inColeman and others (1988) noted that different areas. It seems most likely thatgreenschist to amphibolite-facies rocks the "ages" of the Siskiyou and Nevadanstretching from the Soap Creek Ridge fault to orogenies are spatially variable and relatedthe Orleans fault appear to be overprinted by to areas of intense plutonism.aureoles of plutons such as the Wooley Creek,Vesa Bluffs, and Heather Lake, implying that REVISED TECTONIC HISTOkYa regiondl metamorphic event occurred priorto 167 Ma. They named this regional Although Davis and others (1978)metamorphism the Siskiyou event. The Western cautioned against fitting Klamath terranesHayfork and Rattlesnake Creek terranes were into a coherent plate tectonic setting,both affected by Siskiyou metamorphism, thus shortly thereafter Burchfiel and Davis (1981)their 168-170 Ma protolith ages (Table 1, b1- suggested that the Eastern Hayfork unitb7, b14) apparently constrain the Siskiyou formed in an accretionary wedge outboard ofevent to 167-170 Ma. For this reason, K/Ar the Jura-Triassic volcanoplutonic arc in thehornblende ages on amphibolite of -150 Ma eastern Klamaths. Wright (1981) addedobtained by Lanphere and others (1968) (Table further the idea that the North Fork unit1, e4-e41) were discounted by Coleman and might represent fore-arc igneous crust andothers (1988) as too young. The large region sediments. This tectonic setting has beenof 150 Ma cooling ages reviewed in this paper modified slightly to include the Stuart Fork(Table 1, e25-e57) indicate, however, that terrane as a somewhat older subduction"Siskiyou" metamorphic rocks remained at complex (Goodge, 1990). Hacker and othersamphibolite-facies conditions well into the (1993) proposed that the North Fork andLate Jurassic--about 10-20 m.y. after Salmon River units together represent ancrystallization of the supposedly post- immature magmatic arc.metamorphic Wooley Creek plutonic suite.These age relationships between plutons and Prior to Triassic time, radiolariansregional metamorphism and the low to moderate were deposited in the St Claire Creek unit

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and plagiogranite crystallized in the Salmon fault was active at-this time, and the SaltRiver unit or its ophiolitic basement Creek, Soap Creek, Ridge, and Siskiyou faults(Sawyers Bar terrane). High-pressure may have been mov~ng as well.

metamorphism occurred in the Stuart Fork1 " -167-155 Materrane at -219 Ma, and contemporaneous y,

radiolarians were deposited in the EasternHayfork and St Claire Creek units. Melange Rifting within the Rattlesnake Creekformation in the Rattlesnake Creek terrane terrane led to formation of the Rogue/Chetcowas followed by arc plutonism and volcanism arc and the intra-arc prest?n Peak andthat postdated Late Triassic limestone and Josephine ophiolites over the ~nterval 165-predated 212 Ma plutons. The North Fork, 160 Ma (Harper and wright, 1984; Wyld andEastern Hayfork, and Western Hayfork units Wright, 1988; Harper and others, 1990;contain similar fossils and epiclastic rocks Saleeby, 1990). Contemporaneous with thisof similar provenance-a persuasive was emplacement of the Wooley Creek suite andindication that they are not far traveled dike intrusion in the Sawyers Bar terrane(Wright, 1982). (Fig. 2). Large-scale NW-SE extension may

have been accommodated by normal faults such-200 Ma as the Marble Mountains fault. 7he zone of

magmatic extension is apparently bounded onAt roughly 200 Ma (earliest Jurassic the south by the Salmon tectonic line--a

time), gabbroic plutons crystallized in- the cryptic, poorly defined feature named bySalmon River and Rattlesnake Creek units Irwin (1985a). Displacement on this featurecoincident with radiolarian deposition in the should- increase from zero at its eastern endEastern Hayfork and St Claire Creek units. to a maximum at its western end, explainingThe presence of -200 Ma plutons and the puzzling nature of the eastern end of theassociated volcanic rocks in the Rattlesnake feature noted by Irwin (Irwin, 1989). It isCreek and Salmon River units raises the possible that many contractional faults suchpossibility that these now-separated units as Salt Creek, Soap Creek Ridge, Condrey, andwere once contiguous--or at least Siskiyou faults may have been in motiontectonically related. The 200-Ma plutons in during this same time frame.the Rattlesnake Creek terrane intrude anolder basement of serpentinite-matrix melange Recorded igneous activity in theand volcaniclastic rocks. Coeval plutons in Josephine ophiolite ceased, and Galice flyschthe Salmon River unit intrude diabase rather blanketed the Western Klamath terrane fromthan melange or volcaniclastic rocks, but -157-150 Ma, during continued activity in theserpentinite and mafic volcanic rocks are Rogue/Chetco arc. Farther east in theabundant nearby. Moreover, a Permo-Triassic central Klamaths, magmatism (Grayback,zircon age obtained from the Salmon River Thompson Ridge, Ashland plutons) shiftedunit (Ando and others, 1983) demonstrates northward from the region encompassed by thethat basement rocks older than 200 Ma are Wooley Creek suite, but covered the samepresent. If portions of the Rattlesnake east-west extent.Creek and Salmon River units represent aonce-coherent, single, -200 Ma arc, the -150 Mapresence of intervening Late Permian to LateTriassic Eastern Hayfork sedimentary rock Widespread contraction occurred againmandates significant structural disruption. from about 155 to 146 Ma (Harper and Wright,It is unclear how volcanic rocks of 1984; Harper and others, 1990). The stillequivalent age in the Eastern Klamath terrane active Rogue/Chetco arc was thrust beneathare related to either the Salmon River or the Josephine ophiolite along the MadstoneRattlesnake Creek units. thrust. The Josephine ophiolite, Galice

Formation and Condrey Mountain terrane were-170 Ma telescoped beneath the Rattlesnake Creek

along the Condrey fault (Harper and Wright,At 177-169 Ma, the Western Hayfork arc 1984). The widespread -150 Ma coQling event

formed; the basement of the Western Hayfork may be related to the onset of this thrustingsensu stricto may have been the Rattlesnake (Harper and others, 1993). Recognition ofCreek terrane (Wright and Fahan, 1988). cooling in the Western Klamath terrane asMafic igneous rocks of this age intrude the well as in the Rattlesnake Creek terrane atEastern Hayfork, Condrey Mountain, and this time suggests that the Condrey MountainRattlesnake Creek units, and may make up a terrane may have been subducted beneath thelarge part of the Salmon River extrusive Western Klamath terrane.rocks. Moreover, the last phase of plutonismoccurred in the eastern Klamath terrane at Cretaceousthis time. The relationship between thesethree Jura-Triassic magmatic events is a Volumetrically minor arc magmati5m andconundrum, although the Middle Juras5ic minor deformation lasted in the Klamathintrusions in the Eastern Klamath terrane do orogen until 135 Ma, and was followed bynot have arc-like trace-element compositions exhumation and post-orogenic sedimentation(Renne and Scott, 1988). The Wilson Point

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1993). no longer be 'assigned to specific, narrowtime windows and may have outlived their

CONCLUSIONS usefulness as currently defined.Geochronologic data are now numerous enough

Abundant geochronologic information now to warrant defining the ages andpermits improved recognition of the spatial charact~ristic~ of specific. pl~tons,and temporal ranges of magmatic, metamorphic deformat~on fabr~cs, and metamorph~c m~neralsand deformational events associated with the in individual areas. Assumptions thatformation of continental crust in the Klamath metamorphism, deformation, and plutonismMountains. Widespread magmatism began at occur throughout the Klamath o~ogen within-200 Ma. Two subparallel volcanoplutonic specific time ranges may no longer be valid.arcs were active around 170 Ma, and althoughprobably related to one another, they are ACKNOWLEDGMENTSpresently separated by an intervening and Our synthesis relies heavily upon theolder accretionary wedge. From 167-159 Ma, earlier work of other geologists cited inalternating extension and contraction Table 1. We have benefited from reviews byoccurred along a NW-SE corridor in the Cal Barnes, Mary Donato, Greg Harper, andnorthern Klamaths. Still to be determined Dave Miller. Thanks to Mary Donato, Gregare details regarding the relation between Harper, Jason Saleeby, and Doug Yule forcontraction and extension and the ages and providing unpublished or in press radiometricsenses of motion on major faults. This same data, and to Cal Barnes for providing rocks.area underwent pronounced cooling at -150 Ma, This work was supported by Department ofperhaps as a result of deeper-level Energy grants DE-FGO3-90ER14154 and 8802-121.subduction.

Table 1. Radiometric ages.

Unit Age Intr:;des Reference [original sample number]

Figure 4Aa1 Saddle Gulch pluton h 189:f:6 RC M.A. Lanphere in Irwin (1985a) ['?]a2 Bear Wallow pluton Z 193:f:? RC Wright (1981) [B~lJa3 White Rock pluton (CA) Z 193:f:? RC Wright (1981) [WR-1Ja4 Pole Corral Cr. pluton Z 198:f:? RC Wright (1981) [PCCKJa5 Beegum pluton Z 207:f:? RC Wright (1981) [Beegum)a6 Rat Trap Ridge pluton Z 204t'? RC Wright (1981) [RT1)a7 "Somes Bar" pluton Z 208.1t? 207.3t? RC Gray (1985) [OMG-1, DOMG-2)a7" h 191.5t4.5 RC Gray (1985) [OMG..1Ja8 "Somes Bar" pluton Z 193.7:1:? RC Gray (1985) [SB-7M,?)a9 "Horse Mtn" pluton H 200. 4t1. 4 SR Hacker and others (1993) [Yr13)a10 LR gabbro block H 192t9 Ohr (1987) [LR 10Jall LR gabbro block H 190t9 Ohr (1987) [LR 171Ja12 LR gabbro block H 191t4 Ohr (1987) [LR 871)a13 LR gabbro block H 196t3 Ohr (1987) [LR 1273)a14 LR gabbro block H 199t4 Ohr (1987) [LR 1573)a15 LR volcaniclastic H 191t5 Ohr (1987) [LR 15Ja16 LR plagiogranite Z -198 Ohr (1987) [LR 41)a17 PP amphibolite h 193t7 Gorman (1985) [2KL-338)a18 PP amphibolite h 190t14 Gorman (1985) [2KL-353)a19 Rum Creek metagabbro h 182t12 H.J.B. Dick in Garcia (1982) ['?)a20 metadiabase in Chetco h 197z5 Dick (1976) [Jl15-1)a21 Chetco metagabbro h 191:1:7 Dick (1976) [J103-19Ja22 Chetco metagabbro h 202t17 Dick (1976) [J92-4)a23 blueschist chert block w 185t9 Irwin and others (1985b) ['?)

Figure 48bl Walker Point pluton Z -169 WH Wright and Fahan (1988) [WP-1Jb2 Chanchelulla Pk pluton Z -169 WH EH Wright and Fahan (1988) [CP-2Jb3 Basin Gulch pluton Z -170 WH Wright and Fahan (1988) [BG-'lJb4 Price Creek pluton Z -170 WH Wright and Fahan (1988) [89-1]b5 Ironside Mtn batholith Z 170t1 WH Wright and Fahan (1988) [IR-1, 2Jb5" b 171t5 169t5 WH Lanphere and others (1968) [65CLe 29,

65CLe 33Jb6 Pigeon Pt pluton h 169:1:1.2 171:1:1.8 WH Wright and Fahan (1988) [1058-184,

1058-188Jb6 Pigeon Pt aureole h 168:1:3.4 WH Wright and Fahan (1988) [1058-27)b7 WH volcaniclastics h 168t1.9 171t2.0 177t2.8 Wright and Fahan (1988) [16-109,

1058-24, 1058-167)b8 Denny complex Z -167 EH Wright and Fahan (1988) [DC-1Jb9 Forks of Salmon pluton Z -174 EH Wright and Fahan (1988) [FS-3Jb9 t, h 171t5 EH Lanphere and others (1968) [65CLe 17J

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Table 1 continued.

bl0 CMS metagranodiorite Z 170tl CMS Saleeby and Harper (1993) [?]bll CMS orthogneiss Z 172t2 (n=2) CMS Helper and others (1989) [?]bll " Rb/Sr 136-165 (n=3) CMS Helper and others (1989) [?]bll" m 141-152 (n=5) CMS Helper and others (1989) [?]b12 CMS metavolcanic Z 170tl CMS Helper and others (1989) [?]b13 Hogback Mtn plutons p -169t5 (n=4) EK Renne and Scott (1988) [HMS]b14 "China Pk" dike complex Z 172t2 J.B. Saleeby in Hill (1985) [?]b15 Salmon River dike H 173.2t3.7 SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [220M]b16 Salmon River dike H 174.6tl.3 SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [190M]

Figure 4Ccl Heather Lake pluton H 167.0tO.6 RC? EH SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr172]c2 Russian Pk pluton Z -159 NF SR SF Wright and Fahan (1988) [RP-3, RP-

300]c2" H 152.1tO.5 NF SR SF B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [542M]c2" b 144t2 147t2 NF SR SF Evernden and Kistler (1970) [KA955,

KA956]c3 Slinkard pluton b 151t5 RC Lanphere and others (1968) [66CLe 25]c3" h 157t5 RC Lanphere and others (1968) [66CLe 25]c3" Z 161=;4 RC Barnes and others (Barnes .~nd others,

1986) [II, III, IV]c3" FTz 91:t10 RC Lewison (1984) (SL-10]c4 Slinkard(?) pluton .H 156.2tO.7 RC Saleeby and Harper (Saleeby and

Harper, 1993) [?]c4" Z 160t2 RC Saleeby and Harper (Saleeb~! and

Harper, 1993) [?]c5 RC leucosome Z 150-162 Saleeby and Harper (1993) [?]c6 Wooley Creek pluton h 156t5 WH EH RC Lanphere and others (1968) [66CLe 21]c6" b 158t5 158t5 WH EH RC Lanphere and others (1968) [66CLe 20,

66CLe 21]-+4c6" Z 161_2 WH EH RC Barnes and others (Barnes and others,

1986) [V,VI,VIII]c6" Z ~160 WH EH RC Wright and Fahan (1988) [WC-2]c6" FTz 91:t8, 94:t7 WH EH RC Lewison (1984) {WC1, WC3z]c6" FTa 22.2, 20.4:t3 WH EH RC Lewison (1984) [WC2, WC3a]c7 English Peak pluton Z ~164 EH NF SR Wright and Fahan (1988) [EP-l]c7" b 159t5 EH NF SR Lanphere and others (1968) [66CLe 18]c7" h 161:t5 EH NF SR Lanphere and others (1968) [66CLe 18]c7" H 154.5tl.4 EH NF SR M.M. Donato and C.G. Barnes (pers.

comm., 1992) [EP176B]c7" B 154.3tO.8 EH NF SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [365M]c7" H 153.3tO.3 EH NF SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) :365M]c7" H 160.4tl.4 EH NF SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [EP141]c8 English Peak aureole H 162.6tl.4 EH NF SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [506M]c9 Vesa Bluffs pluton H 165.1tO.4 RC EH NF SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [FPV25]c9" M 148.2tO.3 RC EH NF SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [FPV12]c9" h 164t4 RC EH NF SR Lanphere and others (1968) [CM 29-60]c9" b 150t5 RC EH NF SR Lanphere and others (1968) [CM 29-60]cl0 DE plagiogranite Z 164tl Wright and Wyld (1986) [DE-I, -2, -3]cll DE gabbroic clast H 160.5:t3.0 Harper and others (1993) [OB-l]c12 DE gabbroic clast H 164.5t5.2 Harper and others (1993) [OB-4]c13 JO plagiogranite Z 162tl Harper and others (1993) [A88z]

Saleeby and others (1982)cI4 JO gabbro H 165.3:t3.5 Harper and others (1993) [l':H-6]cIS Rogue tuff-breccia Z I57tI.5 Saleeby (1984) Harper and others

(1993) [?]c16 metagabbro in Rogue h 159t4 Dick (1976) [MGBSCS]c17 Rum Creek metagabbro Z 166t2? Saleeby (1984) Saleeby (1990) [?]c18 Chetco complex Z 155-160 (n=5) J.D. Yule (pers. comm., 1992) [?]c19 Chetco gabbro h 161t3 Dick (1976) [J69-3]c20 Chetco gabbro h 158t4 Dick (1976) [J94-8]c21 Preston Peak dike Z 164tl RC Saleeby and others (1982)Saleeby

(1990) [PP322]c22 Preston Peak aureole h I65t3 Saleeby and others (1982) [PP580]c23 MC amphibolite H I62.0tl.4 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [MC-

154C-86]c24 dike cutting NF H I63.8tl.5 NF Hacker and others (1993) [Yr84Jc25 dike cutting NF H 164.8t2.2 NF B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [601M]c26 dike cutting SR H 158.7t5.0 SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [604M]c27 dike cutting JO h 163t5 JO Dick (1976) [J71-10] i

c28 dike cutting JO h 158t3 JO Dick (1976) [J47-h]

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Table 1 continued. ,c

c29 dike cutting Rogue h 158t2 R Dick (1976) [J63-1]c30 dike cutting Rogue h 163t5 R Dick (1976) [J57-6]c31 dike cutting Rogue h 157t2 R Dick (1976) [J57-19]c31" b 125:t2 R Dick (1976) [J57-19]

Figure 4Dd1 Ashland pluton h 150z5 RC EH NF SR Lanphere and others (1968) [CM77-63]d1" b 151:t5 136z4 RC EH NF SR Lanphere and others (1968) [CM77-63,

26-63]d1" h 170:t5 164z5 RC EH NF SR Hotz (1971) [46?]d1" b 147:t4 RC EH NF SR Hotz (1971) [46?]d1" h 155t? RC EH NF SR P.R. Renne (pers. comm., 1992) [?]d1" b 155t? RC EH NF SR P.R. Renne (pers. comm., 1992) [1]d1" H 152.2t1.2 RC EH NF SR M.M. Donato and C.G. Barnes (pers.

comm., 1992) [AP48]d2 Thompson Ridge pluton H 153.2t1.2 RC B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [TR4]d2 II H 153.0t1.0 RC B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [TR16]

d3 Grayback pluton H 157.3t1.4 RC AG M.M. Donato and C.G. Barnes (pers.comm., 1992) [GM24]

d3" b 141:t4 RC AG Hotz (1971) [52]

d3" h 153t5 153t5 RC AG Hotz (1971) [51, 52]d4 Russian Pk aureole H 154.0tO.8 NF SR B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [584M]d5 dike cutting NF H 154.2tO.7 NF Hacker and others (1993) [Yr19]d6 dike cutting SF H 155.9t1.6 SF Hacker and others (1993) [Yr82]d7 dike cutting EH H 152.7tO.9 EH Hacker and others (1993) [Yr61]d8 dike cutting SR H 155.5tO.7 SR Hacker and others (1993) [448M]d9 dike cutting JO h 156t3 JO Dick (1976) [J123-2]d10 dike cutting JO h 156t12 JO Dick (1976) [J137-13]d11 dike cutting JO h 154t3 JO Dick (1976) [J41-d]d12 dike cutting Rogue h 154t2 R Dick (1976) [J61-9]d13 Rum Creek metagabbro Z 155t2 Saleeby (1984) [?]d14 Chetco gabbro h 154f5 Hotz (1971) [56]d15 Chetco gabbro(?) h 155t5 155f5 Hotz (1971) [1]d16 Chetco gabbro h 154t5 Hotz (1971) [57]d17 Briggs Cr amphibolite H 156.3tO.9 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [216-

GA-76]d18 MC amphibolite h 154t11 Kays and others (1977) [T-112-70]d19 MC amphibolite H 154.2t2.1 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992)d20 MC amphibolite H 153.3tO.8 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [MC-

41A-85]d21 MC amphibolite H 155.0t9.2 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [MC-

81A-85]

Figure 4Ee1 Bear Mountain pluton Z 149-153 RC PP Saleeby and others (1982) [PP567,

PP572B]e1 II b 146f1 RC PP Snoke and others (1981)e2 Ammon Ridge pluton Z 147-151 G Wright and Fahan (1988) [AR-1]e3 Glenn Creek pluton Z 147-151 G Wright and Fahan (1988) [GC-1]e4 Summit Valley pluton H 144.1fO.4 G RC Harper and others (1993) [SV-1h]e4 II Z 150f1 G RC Harper and others (1993) [4]e4 Summit V. pluton dike H 149f4 G RC Ohr (1987) [LR 82]e4 II H 148t1 G RC Ohr (1987) [D-LRO]e5 Buckskin Peak pluton B 148.4tl.2 149.7tl.6 JO Harper and others (1993) [66]e5" H 148.6t1.5 JO Harper and others (1993) [66]e6 sill cutting G H 150.5t2.0 G Harper and others (1993) [D24]e7 sill cutting G H 146.2f1.0 G Harper and others (1993) [D26]e8 sill cutting G Z 150f2 G Saleeby and others (1982) [PP582]e9 dike cutting G h 151t3 G Gray (1985) [LDB-9]e10 dike cutting JO H 148.9f2.6 JO Harper and others (1993) [J98-12]e10" h 146z3 JO Dick (1976) [J98-12]ell dike cutting JO H 148.0f3.0 JO Harper and others (1993) [J97-6]ell" h 151:t3 JO Dick (1976) [J97-6]e12 dike cutting JO h 147t6 JO Saleeby and others (1982) [K20]e13 dike cutting JO Z 151t3 JO Saleeby and others (1982) [C23]"e14 dike cutting JO h 150t3 JO Dick (1976) [J37-H]e1S dike cutting JO h 148t2 JO Dick (1976) [J39-B]e16 dike cutting JO h 150t3 JO Dick (1976) [J45-b]e17 dike cutting JO h 148t2 JO Dick (1976) [J49-j]

"

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Table 1 continued.

e18 dike cutting JO h 146t2 JO Dick (1976) [J51-o]e19 dike cutting Rogue h 149t2 JO Dick (1976) [J61-3]e20 dike cutting Rogue h 147t3 JO Dick (1976) [J63-7]e21 dike cutting Rogue h 151t2 JO Dick (1976) [GFCJ]e21" b 124.t2 JO Dick (1976) [GFCJ]e22 dike cutting Rogue Z 151t2? R Saleeby (1984)Saleeby (1990) [?]e23 dike cutting SR H 149.3t1.7 SR Hacker and others (1993) [Yr2]e24 dikes cutting EK w 149t6 (n=6) EK Brouxel and others (1989)e25 JO s~le pegmatite Z 151t1 Harper and others (1993) [5]e25 II M 146-150 Harper and others (1993) [J113-7]e25" m 148.t3 Dick (1976) [Jl13-7]e26 JO sole metagabbro H 150.5t1.8 Harper and others (1993) [J89-1]e26" h 154.t3 Dick (1976) [J89-1]e27 JO sole amphibolite H 152.8t1.7 Harper and others (1993) [7-15-2k]e28 JO sole amphibolite H 151.9t1.8 Harper and others (1993) [7-16-10b]e29 JO sole pegmatite m 148t3 Dick (1976) [J82-3]e30 JO sole amphibolite h 152t2 Dick (1976) [J87-6]e31 JO sole amphibolite w 148t2 Dick (1976) [Jl13-8]e32 Chetco metagabbro H 151.4t4.4 Harper and others (1993) [LCHB]e32" h 156.t3 Dick (1976) [LCHB]e33 Pearsoll'Pk metagranite m 151t4.5 P.H. Hotz in Ramp (1984) [?]e34 RC amphibolite H 152t1 Saleeby and Harper (1993) [CMT-4a]e35 RC amphibolite h 148t3 Kays and others (1977) [RdMtAg]e36 RC amphibolite H 153.0t2.2 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [SV-

1-85]e37 RC amphibolite H 146.9t2.1 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [233-

83]e38 RC amphibolite H 150.1t4.6 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [GF-

1-85]e39 RC amphibolite H 154.1t3.1 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992)

[MMD183-83]e40 RC amphibolite h 152t5 Lanphere and others (1968) [CM 3-65]e41 RC amphibolite h 150t5 Lanphere and others (1968) [CM 9-65]e42 RC amphibolite h 152.9t3.2 Gray (1985) [BM-120?]e43 RC amphibolite b 148t5 Welsh (1982)e44 RC amphibolite B 150.4tO.4 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr131]e45 RC amphibolite B 148.8t2.6 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr161]e46 RC amphibolite M 150.3tO.3 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr179]e47 RC amphibolite H 147.8t2.3 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr121]e48 RC amphibolite H 152.5t2.5 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr165]e49 RC amphibolite H 152.1t4.7 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr166]e50 RC amphibolite H 149.9tO.4 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr151]e51 RC amphibolite H 150.3tO.6 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr164]e52 RC amphibolite H 155-145 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr157]e53 RC amphibolite H 150.8tO.6 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr120]e54 RC amphibolite B 149.9tO.2 B.R. Hacker (unpub. data) [Yr154]e55 RC amphibolite h 146t? Welsh (1982)e56 RC amphibolite h 148t? Welsh (1982)e57 MC amphibolite B 147.8tO.7 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992)

[MC13B-87]

I'iqure 41'f1 White Rock pluton (OR) b 141t4 MC G Hotz (1971) [54]f2 Grants Pass pluton h 139t4 G AG Hotz (1971) [53]f2" Z 139t2 G AG Harper and others (1993) [1]f3 Gold Hill pluton b 145t4 AG Hotz (1971) [49]f3" h 142t4 AG Hotz (1971) [49]f4 Jacksonville pluton b 141t4 AG Hotz (1971) [48]f4" h 137t4 AG Hotz (1971) [48]f5 Bear Peak pluton h 142t? RC PP(?) C.G. Barnes (pers. comm., 1992) [?]f6 Coon Mtn complex Z 142t2 JO Saleeby and others (1982) [J84z]f6" Z 145+1/-2 JO Harper and others (1993) [2]f6" K 134.9tO.9 JO Harper and others (1993, [J84z]f7 Pony Peak pluton Z 146t3 WH RC Harper and others (1993) [3]f7" H 148. 5t2. 0 WH RC Harper and others (1993) [K85-53]f7" H 147.9tO.1 WH RC Harper and others (1993) [K85-26]f8 Yellow Butte pluton h 138t4 EK Hotz (1971) [?]f8" b 137t4 EK Hotz (1971) [7]£9 Craggy Peak pluton b 136t4 EK Lanphere and others (1968) [65CLe 6]f10 Deadman Peak pluton Z 141-145 CMT SF Wright and Fahan (1988) [DP-1]f10" z 158.t6-167.t6 CMT SF Wright and Fahan (1988) [DP-1]f10" b 133t7 CMT SF Evernden and Kistler (1970) [RA957]

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Table 1 continued. ,-

f1C" H 136:1:2 CMT SF M.M. Donato and C.G. Barnes (pers.comrn., 1992) [DP353]

f11 Caribou Mtn pluton b 136:1:? CMT Davis and others (1965) [?]f11" H 138:1:2 CMT M.M. Donato and C.G. Barnes (pers.

comm., 1992) [FPC10]f12 Sugar Pine pluton b 139:1:4 EK Lanphere and others (1968) [65CLe 8]f12" h 137:1:4 EK Lanphere and others (1968) [65CLe 8]f13 Horseshoe Lake pluton b 133:1:1 CMT Evernden and Kistler (1970) [KA828]f14 Canyon Creek pluton z 159z8 169z9 CMT Wright and Fahan (1988) [CC-1]f14" Z 141-145 CMT SF Wright and Fahan (1988) [CC-1]f15 East Fork pluton h 149:1:4 NF CMT M.A. Lanphere in Irwin (1985a) [?]f15" b 164z5 NF CMT M.A. Lanphere in Irwin (1985a) [?]f16 Shasta Bally batholith h 133:1:4 131:1:4 EK Lanphere and others (1968) [65CLe 19,

A-5]f16" b 130:1:4 134:1:4 135:1:4 EK Lanphere and others (1968) '[65CLe 1,

A-5, "Shasta Bally"]f16" Z 136:1:2 EK Lanphere and Jones (1978)f17 dike cutting NF h 134:1:2.1 NF Wright and Fahan (1988) [1058-158]f18 dike cutting WH h 134:1:1.4 WH Wright and Fahan (1988) [RCT-O]f19 dike cutting CMT h 136:1:1.5 CMT Wright and Fahan (1988) [1058-156]f20 dike cutting EH h 141:1:2.0 EH Wright and Fahan (1988) [1058-86]f21 dike cutting EH h 139:1:1.9 EH . Wright and Fahan (1988) [1058-127]f22 dike cutting SR H 142.6:1:1.7 SR Hacker and others (1993) [Yr45]f23 dike cutting NF H 140.5:1:1.6 NF Hacker and others (1993) [Yr52]f24 MC amphibolite H 145:1:7 Donato (1991) [152]f25 MC amphibolite H 145:1:2 Donato (1991) [158]f26 MC amphibolite H 145.4:1:7.3 M.M. Donato (pers. comrn., 1992)

[MC152-86]f27 MC amphibolite H 144.7:1:2.1 M.M. Donato (pers. corom., 1992)

[MC148-80]f28 MC amphibolite h 133:1:3 Kays and others (1977) [T-42-68]f29 upper CMS Rb/Sr 134-139 (n=6) Helper and others (1989) [?]f29" m 135-143 (n=6) Helper and others (1989) [?]f30 CMS muscovite schist m 144:1:4 Lanphere and others (1968) [CM 120-

f ... f . 631Aq.. 0 Unc.rta~n S~qn~ ~canc.1 dike cutting JO k 25z0.5 JO Dick (1976) [J123-5]2 dike cutting JO h 85z1 JO Dick (1976) [J52-i]3 RC metadacite h 102z8 Welsh (1982)4 RC amphibolite h 118z8 Welsh (1982)5 MC amphibolite H 119.6z5.5 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [MC-

126-85]6 MC amphibolite H 125.4z2. 7 M.M. Donato (pers. comm., 1992) [MC-

157-86]7 lower CMS RbISr 125-132 (n=5) Helper and others (1989)?]7" m 125-134 (n=15) Helper and others (1989)?]8 Bear Mountain pluton h 129z4 RC PP Snoke and others (1981)9 dike cutting JO h 130z8 JO Dick (1976) [J125-1]

10 RC amphibolite h 131z8 Kays and others (1977) [KTA-14-71]11 JO sole amphibolite h 138z5 Dick (1976) [J82-7]12 "Somes Bar" pluton h 142.2z5.8 RC Gray (1985) [KR-6]13 Chetco quartz diorite h 143z4 Hotz (1971) [58]14 dike cutting JO h 171z3 JO Dick (1976) [J39-A]15 dike cutting JO h 171z3 JO Dick (1976) [J119-2]16 dike cutting JO b 91z6 Dick (1976) [Jl19-2]17 Castle Crags b 162z5 167z5 132z4 EK Lanphere and others (1968) [65CLe 1,

65CLe 2, 65CLe 4]18 Castle Crags h 229z7 175z5 EK Lanphere and others (1968) [65CLe 1,

65CLe 4]19 Chetco metadiabase h 280z15 Dick (1976) [J90-7]20 Chetco(?) phyllonite w 236z5 282z6 Dick (1976) [J95-3]

Quoted uncertainties are :1:10', except for Pb/U ages, which are :1:20'. Multiple analyses ofthe same sample or pluton have the same number, "Intrudes" indicates the host rock of plutons,dikes and sills. Italicized ages are not shown in Figure 4.

Z: Pb/U zircon; z: Pb/Pb zircon; h: K/Ar hornblende; b: K/Ar biotite; k: K/Ar K-feldspar;p: K/Ar plagioclase; K: 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar; M: 40Ar/39Ar muscovite; H: 40Ar/39Ar hornblende; B:40Ar/39Ar biotite; FTz: fission-track zircon; FTa: fission-track apatite.

AG: Applegate terrane; CMS: Condrey Mountain terrane; CMT: central Metamorphic terrane;DE: Devils Elbow remnant of Josephine ophiolite; EH: Eastern Hayfork unit; EK: Eastern Klamathterrane; G: Galice Formation; JO: Josephine ophiolite; LR: Lems Ridge olistostrome; MC: MayCreek terrane; NF: North Fork unit; RC: Rattlesnake Creek terrane; SF: Stuart Fork terrane; SR:Salmon River unit; WH: Western Hayfork terrane.

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