Editors: Lauren A. Wright and Bennie W. Troxel

The first symposium on the Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region includes 16 papers that provide a major updating on the structural and stratigraphic features and chronology of the principal basins. The 26 authors address the role of each basin in the tectonic evolution of the Death Valley extended terrane. Featured are: the transition from the broad paleotopography of Oligocene and early Miocene time to the environment of the present basins and ranges; evidence for the magnitude and timing of displacement on the major strike-slip and normal faults that have shaped Death Valley and the surrounding region; the interrelated late Cenozoic histories of the Tecopa basin and the basins of central and southern Death Valley; and analysis of gravity anomalies in detecting the three-dimensional geometry of the basins and the thickness of the unexposed parts of the basinal successions.

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Published: 9/27/1999

ISBN Number: 0813723337

Pages: 376

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