Map showing recently active breaks along the Garlock and associated faults, California

The stratigraphic evolution of the El Paso basin, southern California: Implications for the Miocene development of the Garlock fault and uplift of the Sierra Nevada

“…The total lateral displacement on the fault is estimated to be at least 64 km (Smith, 1962;Smith and Ketner, 1970;Davis and Burchfiel, 1973). Abundant geomorphic evidence indicates Quaternary left slip on the Garlock fault near the El Paso Mountains (Dibblee, 1952;Clark, 1973;Carter, 1980;La Violette and others, 1980), but the age of the beginning of left slip in this area has not previously been constrained to an interval more precise than some time during the Tertiary. It has often been postulated that the present strike-slip Garlock fault was preceded by a large, highangle dip-slip (Hewett, 1954;Smith, 1962) or strike-slip (Nilsen and Clarke, 1975) fault as early as Paleocene time.…”

Dry tilt and nearfield geodetic investigations of crustal movements, Southern California

“…The four benchmarks subsided evenly in time and progressively with distance from the fault a maximum of 67 mm in 5 years. Sylvester, Brown and Riggs (1979) have argued that the progressive spatial and temporal subsidence over a broad zone is a manifestation of subsidence Desert (Clark, 1974) in September, 1974 (Fig. 7) to determine the nature and rate of vertical displacement.…”

Ages of Late Holocene earthquakes on the central Garlock fault near El Paso Peaks, California

“…A large drainage that is deeply incised into these old gravel deposits has been offset at least 200-250 m (first noted by Clark [1973]), and an abandoned drainage to the east has been offset even farther (Figure 2). Two major fault strands are expressed geomorphically at the site (Figure 2).…”