Limitations on Right-Lateral, Strike-Slip Displacement, Death Valley and Furnace Creek Fault Zones, California

Wright, Lauren; Troxel, Bennie W.

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1967)78[933:lorsdd]2.0.co;2

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“…They also concluded that the displacement on the faults may have been contemporaneous with volcanism in the area. References: Y-29: Hamilton, 1988;Y-66: Moring, 1986;Y-216: Brogan and others, 1991 (pi. 1; subdivided what they called the Furnace Creek fault zone into twelve segments, four of which are in Fish Lake Valley and part of FLV of this compilation); Y-222: Streitz and Stinson, 1974;Y-236: Reynolds, 1969;Y-328: Sawyer and Slemmons, 1988;Y-355: Ross, 1967;Y-427: Hart and others, 1989;Y-456: Bryson, 1937;Y-468: Noble and Wright, 1954;Y-470: Bryant, 1988;Y-474: Hooke, 1972;Y-475: McKee, 1968;Y-478: Stewart, 1983;Y-479: Wright and Troxel, 1967;Y-482: Krauskopf, 1971:Y-483: McKee, 1985Y-484: McKee and Nelson, 1967;Y-485: Robinson and Crowder, 1973;Y-486: Stewart and others, 1974;Y-600: Stewart, 1967;Y-647: Sawyer, 1991 (subdivided FLV between long 117°45'W. and long 118°15'W.…”

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“…and 117'15'W. ); Y-397: Pistrang and Kunkel, 1964;Y-421: McAllister, 1970;Y-427: Hart and others, 1989;Y-456: Bryson, 1937;Yr468: Noble and Wright, 1954;Yz^TO: Bryant, 1988;^414: Hooke, 1972;Y^: McKee, 1968;Y^478: Stewart, 1983;Y-479: Wright and Troxel, 1967 (part of their Death Valley-Furnace Creek fault zone); Y-482: Krauskopf, 1971: Y-483: McKee, 1985Y-484: McKee and Nelson, 1967;Y-485: Robinson and Crowder, 1973;Y-486: Stewart and others, 1974;Y-596: Wright and Troxel, 1970;Y-600: Stewart, 1967 Cemen and others, 1985;Y-706: Wright, 1989;Y-746: Wright and Troxel, 1954;Y-853: Dohrenwend and others, 1992;Y-880: Curry, 1938;Y- : Jennings, 1992 Style of faulting: Right lateral displacement predominates for Holocene and late Pleistocene ruptures in most places (Y-216, p. 19). Minor dip-slip displacement observed at some localities may be due to changes in strike of the fault (Y-216, p. 19).…”

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“…4; their South Ashford Mill section and possibly their Gregory Peak and North Ashford Mill sections may be part of SDV); Y-246: Troxel, 1986;Y-247: Butler, 1986;Y-248: Troxel and Butler, [1986]; Y-338: Butler, 1988;Y-339: Brady, 1988 Hill and Troxel, 1966;Y478: Stewart, 1983 (his Death Valley fault zone); Y-479: Wright and Troxel, 1967;Y-550: Butler and others, 1986;Y-592: Davis, 1977 (his Death Valley fault zone, which he noted is south of lat 36WN. ); Y-593: Davis and Burchfiel, 1973;Y-599: Butler, 1984;Y-600: Stewart, 1967 (his Death Valley fault zone); Y-602: Brady, 1986 (his southern Death Valley fault zone); Y-603: (subdivided the portion of SDV between the Confidence Hills and the southern Owlshead Mountains into a western subzone along the eastern side of the Owlshead Mountains and an eastern subzone within southern Death Valley); Y-612: Hamilton and Myers, 1966;Y-746: Wright and Troxel, 1954 (map 8, p. 34);Y-764: Brady, 1991;Y-955: Brady, 1986 Fault orientation: SDV strikes approximately northwest (Y-216, p. 13; Y-472, p. 402).…”

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Compilation of known or suspected Quaternary faults within 100km of Yucca Mountain, Nevada and California

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1996

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1996

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“…1) (Stewart 1983;Wernicke et al , 1993Snow & Wernicke 1989Holm et al 1992;Topping 1993;Brady et al 2000b;Niemi et al 2001; for contrasting interpretations of available data, see Stewart 1967Stewart , 1986Wright & Troxel 1967, 1970Stewart et al , 1970Prave & Wright 1986a, b;Corbett 1990;Wernicke et al 1990;Stevens et al 1991Stevens et al , 1992Snow 1992b;Stone & Stevens 1993;Serpa & Pavlis 1996). Re-examination of the most important individual piece of evidence, a middle Miocene succession of breccia, conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone, limestone and tephra (Eagle Mountain Formation; E in Fig.…”

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Observations from the Basin and Range Province (western United States) pertinent to the interpretation of regional detachment faults

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This paper summarizes the results of completed and ongoing research in three areas of the Basin and Range Province of the western United States that casts doubt on the interpretation of specific regional detachment faults and the large extensional strains with which such faults are commonly associated. Given that these examples were influential in the development of ideas about low-angle normal faults, and particularly in making the case for frictional slip at dips of appreciably less than the 308 lock-up angle for m 0.6 (where m is the coefficient of friction), we advocate a critical re-examination of interpreted detachments elsewhere in the Basin and Range Province and in other extensional and passive margin settings.The Sevier Desert 'detachment' of west-central Utah is reinterpreted as a Palaeogene unconformity that has been traced to depth west of the northern Sevier Desert basin along an unrelated seismic reflection (most probably a splay of the Cretaceous-age Pavant thrust). The absence of evidence in well cuttings and cores for either brittle deformation (above) or ductile deformation (below) is inconsistent with the existence of a fault with as much as 40 km of displacement. The Pavant thrust and the structurally higher Canyon Range thrust are erosionally truncated at the western margin of the southern Sevier Desert basin, and are not offset by the 'detachment' in the manner assumed by those inferring large extension across the basin.The Mormon Peak detachment of SE Nevada is reinterpreted as a series of slide blocks on the basis of detachment characteristics and spatially variable kinematic indicators that are more closely aligned with the modern dip direction than the inferred regional extension direction. A particularly distinctive feature of the detachment is a basal layer of up to several tens of centimetres of polymictic conglomerate that was demonstrably involved in the deformation, with clastic dykes of the same material extending for several metres into overlying rocks in a manner remarkably similar to that observed at rapidly emplaced slide blocks. The Castle Cliff detachment in the nearby Beaver Dam Mountains of SW Utah is similarly regarded as a surficial feature, as originally interpreted, and consistent with its conspicuous absence in seismic reflection profiles from the adjacent sedimentary basin.The middle Miocene Eagle Mountain Formation of eastern California, interpreted on the basis of facies evidence and distinctive clast provenance to have been moved tectonically more than 80 km ESE from a location close to the Jurassic-age Hunter Mountain batholith of the Cottonwood Mountains, is reinterpreted as having accumulated in a fluvial-lacustrine rather than alluvial fanlacustrine setting, with no bearing on either the amount or direction of tectonic transport. The conglomeratic rocks upon which the provenance argument was based are pervasively channelized, with erosional relief of less than 1 m to as much as 15 m, fining-upwards successions at the same scale and abundant trough ...

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“…Winograd and Thordarson, 1975;Carr and Monsen, 1988;Burchfiel and others 1983a;Wernicke and others, 1988b; hydrogeology from others, 1986, andKilroy, 1991). 6, Generalized hydrogeologic section through the Amargosa Desert (geology from Winograd andThordarson, 1975, andTroxel, 1967). Extensional faults are found throughout the area.…”

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Hydrogeology and potential for ground-water development, carbonate-rock aquifers, southern Nevada and southeastern California

Burbey¹

1997

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Limitations on Right-Lateral, Strike-Slip Displacement, Death Valley and Furnace Creek Fault Zones, California

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Compilation of known or suspected Quaternary faults within 100km of Yucca Mountain, Nevada and California

Compilation of known or suspected Quaternary faults within 100km of Yucca Mountain, Nevada and California

Observations from the Basin and Range Province (western United States) pertinent to the interpretation of regional detachment faults

Hydrogeology and potential for ground-water development, carbonate-rock aquifers, southern Nevada and southeastern California

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