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Table of Contents - Special Paper 334

Cenozoic Tectonics and Volcanism of Mexico

Preface		v
1.	The Rivera-Cocos plate boundary: Implications for Rivera-Cocos relative motion and plate fragmentation W. L. Bandy, T. W. C. Hilde, and C.-Y. Yan	1
2.	Morphology and recent history of the ridge propagator system located at 18° N, 106° W W. L. Bandy and T. W. C. Hilde	29
3.	Late Miocene to Quaternary extension at the northern boundary of the Jalisco block, western Mexico: The Tepic-Zacoalco rift revised Luca Ferrari and Jos‚ Rosas-Elguera	41
4.	Geology of the western Mexican Volcanic Belt and adjacent Sierra Madre Occidental and Jalisco block Luca Ferrari, Giorgio Pasquarè, Saul Venegas-Salgado, and Francisco Romero-Rios	65
5.	Stratigraphic and structural relations between the trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Guadalajara Region, Jalisco, Mexico Jacopo Spinnler, Victor Hugo Garduño, and Enrico Ceragioli	85
6.	Tectonic controls on lake distribution in the Jalisco block area (western Mexico) from Pliocene to present François Michaud, Françoise Gasse, Jacques Bourgois, and Odranoel Quintero	99
7.	Geologic reconnaissance and Miocene age of volcanism and associated fauna from sediments of Bahía de los Angeles, Baja California, central Gulf of California Luis A. Delgado-Argote, Margarita López-Martínez, and María del Carmen Perrilliat	111
8.	Miocene volcanism during late subduction and early rifting in the Sierra Santa Ursula of western Sonora, Mexico Gabriela Mora-Alvarez and Fred W. McDowell	123
9.	Relation of the Puertecitos Volcanic Province, Baja California, Mexico, to development of the plate boundary in the Gulf of California Joann M. Stock	143
10.	Paleomagnetic data from northern Baja California (Mexico): Results from the Cretaceous San Telmo batholith H. Böhnel and L. Delgado-Argote	157
11.	Stratigraphy, K-Ar ages, and magnetostratigraphy of the Acambay graben, central Mexican Volcanic Belt Gerardo J. Arguirre-Díaz, Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Ana Maria Soler-Arechalde, and Fred W. McDowell	167
12.	Volcanic evolution of the Amealco caldera, central Mexico Gerardo J. Aguirre-Díaz and Fred W. McDowell	179
13.	Geochemistry of the subducting Cocos plate and the origin of subduction-unrelated mafic volcanism at the volcanic front of the central Mexican Volcanic Belt Surendra P. Verma	195
14.	Contribution to the tectonics of the northern portion of the central sector of the trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt J. O. Campos-Enriquez, M. Rodríguez, O. Delgado-Rodríguez, and M. Milán	223
15.	Fault-slip analysis in the basal units of the Mexican Volcanic Belt on the eastern flank of the Tzitzio anticline, Michoacán, México L. Mennella, V. H. Garduño, and O. Bonassi	237
16.	Structure and proximal stratigraphy of Citlalt‚petl volcano (Pico de Orizaba), Mexico Gerardo Carrasco-Núñez	247
17.	Reverse faulting in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Backarc deformation induced by the subduction of the Tehuantepec ridge Gerardo Suárez	263
Index		269