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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

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