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Table of Contents - Field Guide 2:

Great Basin and Sierra Nevada


Preface v


GREAT BASIN AND SIERRA NEVADA

1. Lake Tahoe active faults, landslides, and tsunamis
Richard A. Schweickert, Mary M. Lahren, Robert Karlin, Jim Howie, and Ken Smith
1
2. Histotical surface faulting and paleoseismology of the central Nevada seismic belt
S. John Caskey, John W. Bell, D. Burton Slemmons, and Alan R. Ramelli
23
3. Geoarcheology and Holocene landscape history of the Carson Desert, western Nevada
David Rhode, Kenneth D. Adams, and Robert G. Elston
45
4. Reconstruction of Basin and Range extension and westward motion of the Sierra Nevada Block
Robert J. Brady, Brian P. Wemicke, and Nathan A. Niemi
75
5. Neogene basins in western Nevada document the tectonic history of the Sierra Nevada–Basin and Range transition zone for the last 12 Ma
J.H. Trexler, Jr., P.H. Cashman, C.D. Henry, T. Muntean, K. Schwartz, A. TenBrink, J.E. Faulds, M. Perkins, and T. Kelly
97
6. Neogene through Quaternary hillslope records, basin sedimentation, and landscape evolution of southeastern Nevada
Joel L. Pederson, Frank J. Pazzaglia, Gary A. Smith, and Yun Mou
117
7. Late Cenozoic crustal extension and magmatism, southern Death Valley region, California
J.P. Calzia and O.T. Rämö
135
8. Interrelation of Eocene magmatism, extension, and Carlin-type gold deposits in northeastern Nevada
Christopher D. Henry and Michael W. Ressel
165
9. Papoose Flat, Eureka Valley–Joshua Flat–Beer Creek, and Sage Hen Flat plutons: Examples of rising, sinking, and cookie-cutter plutons in the central White-Inyo Range, eastern California
Sven S. Morgan, Richard D. Law, and Michel de Saint Blanquat
189
10. Middle Mesozoic plutonism and deformation in the western Sierra Nevada foothills, Cafifornia
Diane Clemens-Knott, Michael B. Wolf, and Jason B. Saleeby
205
11. The Pershing olistostrome: Evidence for the Triassic shelf-basin transition in the western Great Basin
Frederick R. Heck
223
12. Geology of Pakozoic rocks in eastern Sierra Nevada roof pendants, California
Calvin H. Stevens and David C. Greene
237
13. Paleozoic subduction complex and Paleozoic-Mesozoic island-arc volcano-plutonic assemblages in the northern Sierra terrane
Richard E. Hanson, Gary H. Girty, David S. Harwood, and Richard A. Schweickert
255
14. Lower Pateozoic stratigraphy and structure of central Nevada: Comparisons and contrasts between the lower and upper plates of the Roberts Mountains thrust
Stanley C. Finney, Paula Noble, and J. Kelly Cluer
279
15. Global Ordovician Series boundaries and global event biohorizons, Monitor Range and Roberts Mountains, Nevada
Stanley C. Finney and Ray Ethington
301
16. Neoproterozoic glacial record in the Death Valley region, California and Nevada
Mark Abolins, Rebecca Oskin, Tony Prave, Catherine Summa, and Frank Corsetti
319

NEVADA TEST SITE AND YUCCA MOUNTAIN
17. Superposed fold-thrust events at the Nevada Test Site
Patricia H. Cashman, James C. Cole, and James H. Trexler, Jr.
337
18. Lake Tecopa and its environs: 2.5 million years of exposed history relevant to climate, groundwater, and erosion issues at the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Roger B. Morrison and Martin D. Mifflin
335
19. Hydrologic and geologic characteristics of the Yucca Mountain Site relevant to the performance of a potential repository
R.A. Levich, R.M. Linden, Russ L. Patterson, and John S. Stuckless
383

INVITED FIELD GUIDE FROM THE 1999 CORDILLERAN SECTION
20. A discussion of geology, soils, wines, and history of the Napa Valley region
David G. Howell and Jonathan R Swinchatt
415
Appendix: Color figures for Chapter 19 423