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Book Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range

Download or read book Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range written by Allen F. Glazner and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains: Electronic version of text -- Maps.

Book Neogene to Quaternary tectonics of the Garlock Fault and the Eastern California shear zone in the northern Mojave Desert  California

Download or read book Neogene to Quaternary tectonics of the Garlock Fault and the Eastern California shear zone in the northern Mojave Desert California written by William Michael Rittase and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Investigation of Extensional Tectonics of Southern California

Download or read book An Investigation of Extensional Tectonics of Southern California written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologic mapping and interpretation of Landsat TM imagery has filled in a significant gap in the geologic database for southwestern Arizona and southeastern California. The new data acquired, along with interpretation of existing data, forms the basis for a proposed reconstruction of late Tertiary faults in these regions. This reconstruction integrates available geological and geophysical data to define the eastern limit of deformation related to the San Andreas fault, and has significant implications for other recently proposed reconstructions of Tertiary deformation in the region. This progress in interpreting deformation during the last 10 Ma in the region forms a foundation for developing and testing models of older deformation in this region, including the initiation of San Andreas fault system, and the interaction of Early Miocene extension in the Basin and Range with the evolving San Andreas system. Richard, Steven M. and Crowell, John C. Unspecified Center NAGW-1246...

Book Pliocene and Pleistocene Evolution of the Mojave River  and Associated Tectonic Development of the Transverse Ranges and Mojave Desert  Based on Borehole Stratigraphy Studies Near Victorville  California

Download or read book Pliocene and Pleistocene Evolution of the Mojave River and Associated Tectonic Development of the Transverse Ranges and Mojave Desert Based on Borehole Stratigraphy Studies Near Victorville California written by Brett F. Cox and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quaternary Deformation of the Middle Pleistocene Christmas Canyon Formation and Its Implications for Neotectonic Processes Associated with the Garlock Fault and Eastern California Shear Zone

Download or read book Quaternary Deformation of the Middle Pleistocene Christmas Canyon Formation and Its Implications for Neotectonic Processes Associated with the Garlock Fault and Eastern California Shear Zone written by Evan Michael Wolf and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Searles Valley region of southeastern California exhibits a series of northeasterly trending folds that are anomalously oriented when viewed in the context of the current regional stress field, where the principal compressive stress is oriented from the northeast and southwest. This region also marks a complex zone of deformation, as the Blackwater fault of the Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) appears to terminate at its intersection with the Browns Valley/Ranch fault zone, 5 km south of the Garlock fault. The presence of the northeasterly trending Christmas Canyon anticline near the junction of these three fault systems has led to the inference that regional compression directed from the northwest and southeast may have occurred during the last 640,000 years. To assess the style of deformation associated with the interaction of these three fault zones, a geologic survey consisting of geologic mapping, remote sensing and absolute-dating techniques was conducted within the northeastern Lava Mountains, immediately south of the Garlock fault. The study area, informally designated as western Christmas Canyon, exhibits a series of northeasterly trending structures that have deformed and offset lacustrine deposits of the middle Pleistocene Christmas Canyon Formation. These northeasterly striking faults, exhibit displacements suggestive of sinistral shear, and are oriented on average 22 degrees counterclockwise to the trace of the Garlock fault in southern Searles Valley. The orientation and mode of deformation attributed to these faults implies that they may have formed as Riedel shears to the sinistral Garlock fault zone, and thus likely formed during a period of northeast-southwest directed regional compression. Conversely, a single northeast-trending synclinal structure within western Christmas Canyon implies regional compression nearly orthogonal to the adequate orientation for driving sinistral shear along the Garlock fault zone. The results obtained from the geologic survey of the western Christmas Canyon region imply that the Garlock fault has sinistrally offset two alluvial fan surfaces from their source drainage during the late Holocene, and that a period of northwest-southeast directed compression most likely did not occur since the deposition of the middle Pleistocene Christmas Canyon Formation. As a result, the formation of northeasterly trending folds within the Christmas Canyon Formation is inferred to be attributed to deformation associated with slip along Riedel shears of the Garlock fault zone, or as a result of distributed deformation associated with the termination of northwesterly striking dextral faults of the Eastern California Shear zone or P' shears to the Garlock fault.

Book The Mojave Sonora Megashear Hypothesis

Download or read book The Mojave Sonora Megashear Hypothesis written by Thomas Howard Anderson and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paleoenvironments and Paleohydrology of the Mojave and Southern Great Basin Deserts

Download or read book Paleoenvironments and Paleohydrology of the Mojave and Southern Great Basin Deserts written by Yehouda Enzel and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Publications of the Geological Survey

Download or read book New Publications of the Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neogene Deformation between Central  Utah and the  Mojave Desert

Download or read book Neogene Deformation between Central Utah and the Mojave Desert written by R. Ernest Anderson and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a must-read for researchers interested in extensional tectonics in general and the Neogene tectonics of the Basin and Range in particular, because it challenges, on the basis of more than 50 years of field studies, the existing paradigm of province-wide uniformly large extension and replaces it with a model integrating extension with extension-normal shortening-both as primary strains. The first chapter takes the reader on two journeys southwestward from central Utah through the Lake Mead area: the first to emphasize the lack of uniformly distributed or integrated extension and the second to highlight left-lateral shear at 13 localities along the east margin of the Basin and Range that is kinematically compatible with right-lateral shear along the west margin. The compatibility provides a basis for understanding the extreme Neogene tectonics of the Lake Mead area. The second chapter summarizes multifaceted field evidence from the well-studied eastern Lake Mead area as a focused example of the need for a complete revision of the extensional paradigm." -- Publisher's description.

Book Cadiz Groundwater Storage and Dry year Supply Program  California

Download or read book Cadiz Groundwater Storage and Dry year Supply Program California written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Structure  Tectonics and Mineralization of the Walker Lane

Download or read book Structure Tectonics and Mineralization of the Walker Lane written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Publications of the U S  Geological Survey

Download or read book New Publications of the U S Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palinspastic Reconstruction of Southeastern California and Southwestern Arizona for the Middle Miocene

Download or read book Palinspastic Reconstruction of Southeastern California and Southwestern Arizona for the Middle Miocene written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paleogeographic reconstruction of southeastern California and southwestern Arizona at 10 Ma was made based on available geologic and geophysical data. Clockwise rotation of 39 deg was reconstructed in the eastern Transverse Ranges, consistent with paleomagnetic data from late Miocene volcanic rocks, and with slip estimates for left-lateral faults within the eastern Transverse Ranges and NW-trending right lateral faults in the Mojave Desert. This domain of rotated rocks is bounded by the Pinto Mountain fault on the north. In the absence of evidence for rotation of the San Bernardino Mountains or for significant right slip faults within the San Bernardino Mountains, the model requires that the late Miocene Pinto Mountain fault become a thrust fault gaining displacement to the west. The Squaw Peak thrust system of Meisling and Weldon may be a western continuation of this fault system. The Sheep Hole fault bounds the rotating domain on the east. East of this fault an array of NW-trending right slip faults and south-trending extensional transfer zones has produced a basin and range physiography while accumulating up to 14 km of right slip. This maximum is significantly less than the 37.5 km of right slip required in this region by a recent reconstruction of the central Mojave Desert. Geologic relations along the southern boundary of the rotating domain are poorly known, but this boundary is interpreted to involve a series of curved strike slip faults and non-coaxial extension, bounded on the southeast by the Mammoth Wash and related faults in the eastern Chocolate Mountains. Available constraints on timing suggest that Quaternary movement on the Pinto Mountain and nearby faults is unrelated to the rotation of the eastern Transverse Ranges, and was preceded by a hiatus during part of Pliocene time which followed the deformation producing the rotation. The reconstructed Clemens Well fault in the Orocopia Mountains, proposed as a major early Miocene strand of the San Andr...