Miocene tectonics of the Lake Mead region, central basin and range / edited by Paul J. Umhoefer, L. Sue Beard, Melissa A. Lamb.

Other author Umhoefer, Paul John, editor.
Other author Beard, Sue, editor.
Other author Lamb, Melissa A., editor.
Format Software
Publication InfoBoulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2010.
Descriptionvii, 441 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), charts ; 28 cm + 1 compact disc (4 3/4 in.)
Subjects

SeriesSpecial paper ; 463
Special papers (Geological Society of America) 463. ^A20279
Contents Geology of the Lake Mead region : an overview / R. Ernest Anderson, L. Sue Beard -- Geologic map of Lake Mead and surrounding regions, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northwestern Arizona / Tracey J. Felger, L. Sue Beard -- Implications of geophysical analysis on basin geometry and fault offsets in the northern Colorado River extensional corridor and adjoining Lake Mead region, Nevada and Arizona / Victoria E. Langenheim, L. Sue Beard, James E. Faulds -- Development of the Salt Spring Wash Basin in a reentrant in the hanging wall of the South Virgin-White Hills detachment fault, Lake Mead domain, northwest Arizona / Nathan Blythe ... [et al.] -- A chronicle of Miocene extension near the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range boundary, southern White Hills, northwestern Arizona : paleogeographic and tectonic implications / James E. Faulds ... [et al.] -- Miocene tectonics and climate in the Lake Mead region recorded by Horse Spring Formation carbonates / Thomas A. Hickson, Anders J. Ness, Melissa A. Lamb -- Erosion of tilted fault blocks and deposition of coarse sediments in half-graben basins during late stages of extension : Gold Butte area, Basin and Range Province / Keith A. Howard ... [et al.] -- Stratigraphy and age of the Lower Horse Spring Formation in the Longwell Ridges area, southern Nevada : implications for tectonic interpretations / Melissa A. Lamb ... [et al.] -- Volcanoes of the McCullough Range, southern Nevada / Eugene Smith, Denise Honn, Racheal Johnsen -- Development of Gregg Basin and the southwestern Grand Wash Trough during late-stage faulting in eastern Lake Mead, Arizona / Paul J. Umhoefer ... [et al.] -- Geometry and kinematics of the eastern Lake Mead fault system in the Virgin Mountains, Nevada and Arizona / L. Sue Beard, David J. Campagna, R. Ernest Anderson -- The South Virgin-White Hills detachment fault, southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona : significance, displacement gradient, and corrugation formation / Ernest M. Duebendorfer, James E. Faulds, Joan E. Fryxell -- Secondary normal faulting in the Lake Mead fault system and implications for regional fault mechanics / Scott T. Marshall, Simon A. Kattenhorn, Michele L. Cooke -- Timing and mechanisms of basement uplift and exhumation in the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range transition zone, Virgin Mountain anticline, Nevada-Arizona / Mark C. Quigley ... [et al.] -- Structure and 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar thermal history of the Gold Butte block : reevaluation of the tilted crustal section model / Karl E. Karlstrom, Matt Heizler, Mark C. Quigley -- New core complex model for the South Virgin-White Hills detachment and extension in the eastern Lake Mead area, Southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona / Zack A. Swaney ... [et al.] -- From detachment to transtensional faulting : a model for the Lake Mead extensional domain based on new ages and correlation of subbasins / Paul J. Umhoefer ... [et al.] -- Integration of tectonic, sedimentary, and geohydrolic processes leading to a small-scale extension model for the Mormon Mountains area north of Lake Mead, Lincoln County, Nevada / R. Ernest Anderson ... [et al.] -- Fluid flow, solution collapse, and massive dissolution at detachment faults, Mormon Mountains, Nevada / S.F. Diehl, R. Ernest Anderson, J.D. Humphrey.
General noteAccompanying compact disc titled: Supplementary materials to Miocene tectonics of the Lake Mead region, central basin and range
General notePlates of maps in pocket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2010008132
ISBN9780813724638 (pbk.)
ISBN0813724635 (pbk.)

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