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Table of Contents - GSA Field Guide 11

Field Guide to Plutons, Volcanoes, Faults, Reefs, Dinosaurs, and Possible Glaciation in Selected Areas of Arizona, California, and Nevada

Edited by Ernest M. Duebendorfer and Eugene I. Smith

Preface		v
1.	The mid-Miocene Wilson Ridge pluton and River Mountains volcanic section, Lake Mead area of Nevada and Arizona: Linking a volcanic and plutonic section Denise Honn and Eugene I. Smith	1
2.	Late Paleozoic deformation in central and southern Nevada Pat Cashman, Jim Trexler, Walt Snyder, Vladimir Davydov, and Wanda Taylor	21
3.	Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone Kurt L. Frankel, Allen F. Glazner, Eric Kirby, Francis C. Monastero, Michael D. Strane, Michael E. Oskin, Jeffrey R. Unruh, J. Douglas Walker, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, John M. Bartley, Drew S. Coleman, James F. Dolan, Robert C. Finkel, Dave Greene, Andrew Kylander-Clark, Shasta Marrero, Lewis A. Owen, and Fred Phillips	43
4.	Ediacaran and early Cambrian reefs of Esmeralda County, Nevada: Non-congruent communities within congruent ecosystems across the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic boundary Stephen M. Rowland, Lynn K. Oliver, and Melissa Hicks	83
5.	Magmatism and tectonics in a tilted crustal section through a continental arc, eastern Transverse Ranges and southern Mojave Desert Andrew P. Barth, J. Lawford Anderson, Carl E. Jacobson, Scott R. Paterson, and Joseph L. Wooden	101
6.	Cenozoic evolution of the abrupt Colorado Plateau–Basin and Range boundary, northwest Arizona: A tale of three basins, immense lacustrine-evaporite deposits, and the nascent Colorado River James E. Faulds, Keith A. Howard, and Ernest M. Duebendorfer	119
7.	Interpretation of Pleistocene glaciation in the Spring Mountains of Nevada: Pros and Cons Jerry Osborn, Matthew Lachniet, and Marvin (Nick) Saines	153
8.	Quaternary volcanism in the San Francisco Volcanic Field: Recent basaltic eruptions that profoundly impacted the northern Arizona landscape and disrupted the lives of nearby residents S.L. Hanson, W. Duffield, and J. Plescia	173
9.	The Spirit Mountain batholith and Secret Pass Canyon volcanic center: A cross-sectional view of the magmatic architecture of the uppermost crust of an extensional terrain, Colorado River, Nevada-Arizona Nicholas P. Lang, B.J. Walker, Lily L. Claiborne, Calvin F. Miller, Richard W. Hazlett, and Matthew T. Heizler	187
10.	Devonian carbonate platform of eastern Nevada: Facies, surfaces, cycles, sequences, reefs, and catastrophic Alamo Impact Breccia John E. Warme, Jared R. Morrow, and Charles A. Sandberg	215
11.	Dinosaurs and dunes! Sedimentology and paleontology of the Mesozoic in the Valley of Fire State Park Joshua W. Bonde, David J. Varricchio, Frankie D. Jackson, David B. Loope, and Aubrey M. Shirk	249