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1 Department of Geology, Wittenberg University, P.O. Box 720, Springfield, Ohio 45501
2 Quaternary Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, P.O. Box 60220, Reno, Nevada 89506
3 Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
4 Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
Tectonism and climate are the primary variables considered in conceptual models of alluvial fan evolution and basin-fill architecture, yet their roles and relative importance are far from resolved. The Madison Range and Madison River valley, southwestern Montana, were affected during late Quaternary time by varying degrees of tectonic activity as well as by climate change through multiple glaciations; we are thus able to evaluate the impact of tectonism and climate on fan evolution. Two primary fan deposits were correlated along the range front. They were deposited as proglacial outwash fans during glacial periods of increased sediment and water discharge. During the present interglacial period, these deposits were entrenched and secondary fans formed on lower fan areas. Temporal and stratigraphic relations indicate that climate was largely responsible for driving both fan aggradation and entrenchment. In contrast, stratigraphic relations between fan deposits and surface faults do not support a direct relation, either spatial or temporal, between local faulting and fan deposition. Because tectonism produces and maintains the relief necessary for fans to form, its primary role is long term, controlling the duration over which fan deposition may occur along a mountain front. If Quaternary alluvial fan evolution is representative of ancient alluvial fan evolution, this study has important implications for interpreting primary controls on deposition of the ancient alluvial fan sequences.
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