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Table of Contents - Special Paper 439

Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives

edited by Marith C. Reheis, Robert Hershler, and David M. Miller

Preface		vii
DEATH VALLEYAND TRIBUTARY DRAINAGE SYSTEMS
1.	Reconstructing late Pliocene to middle Pleistocene Death Valley lakes and river systems as a test of pupfish (Cyprinodontidae) dispersal hypotheses Jeffrey R. Knott, Michael N. Machette, Ralph E. Klinger, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, Joseph C. Liddicoat, John C. Tinsley III, Brian T. David, and Veva M. Ebbs	1
2.	The western North American pupfish clade (Cyprinodontidae: Cyprinodon): Mitochondrial DNA divergence and drainage history Anthony A. Echelle	27
3.	Multistage late Cenozoic evolution of the Amargosa River drainage, southwestern Nevada and eastern California Christopher M. Menges	39
4.	Ancient vicariance and recent dispersal of springsnails (Hydrobiidae: Pyrgulopsis) in the Death Valley system, California-Nevada Robert Hershler and Hsiu-Ping Liu	91
5.	Genetic zoogeography of the Hyalella azteca species complex in the Great Basin: Rapid rates of molecular diversification in desert springs Jonathan D.S. Witt, Doug L. Threloff, and Paul D.N. Hebert	103
6.	Geological and hydrological history of the paleo–Owens River drainage since the late Miocene Fred M. Phillips	115
7.	Late Pleistocene lakes and wetlands, Panamint Valley, Inyo County, California A.S. Jayko, R.M. Forester, D.S. Kaufman, F.M. Phillips, J.C. Yount, J. McGeehin, and S.A. Mahan	151
8.	Late Quaternary, MIS 6–8 shoreline features of pluvial Owens Lake, Owens Valley, eastern California A.S. Jayko and S.N. Bacon	185
9.	Late Pleistocene shorelines of Owens Lake, California, and their hydroclimatic and tectonic implications Antony R. Orme and Amalie Jo Orme	207
10.	Lake Manix shorelines and Afton Canyon terraces: Implications for incision of Afton Canyon Marith C. Reheis and Joanna L. Redwine	227
11.	Lake Thompson, Mojave Desert, California: The late Pleistocene lake system and its Holocene desiccation Antony R. Orme	261
COLORADO RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN
12.	Middle to late Cenozoic geology, hydrography, and fish evolution in the American Southwest Jon E. Spencer, Gerald R. Smith, and Thomas E. Dowling	279
13.	Correlating hydrographic events and divergence times of speckled dace (Rhinichthys: Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in the Colorado River drainage Gerald R. Smith and Thomas E. Dowling	301
14.	Pre–Colorado River drainage in western Grand Canyon: Potential influence on Miocene stratigraphy in Grand Wash Trough Richard A. Young	319
15.	Stratigraphic evidence for the role of lake spillover in the inception of the lower Colorado River in southern Nevada and western Arizona P. Kyle House, Philip A. Pearthree, and Michael E. Perkins	335
16.	Late Neogene marine incursions and the ancestral Gulf of California Kristin McDougall	355
17.	An evaluation of the evolution of the latest Miocene to earliest Pliocene Bouse lake system in the lower Colorado River valley, southwestern USA Jon E. Spencer, Philip A. Pearthree, and P. Kyle House	375
18.	Age, distribution, and formation of late Cenozoic paleovalleys of the lower Colorado River and their relation to river aggradation and degradation Keith A. Howard, Scott C. Lundstrom, Daniel V. Malmon, and Simon J. Hook	391
19.	Late Pleistocene aggradation and degradation of the lower Colorado River: Perspectives from the Cottonwood area and other reconnaissance below Boulder Canyon Scott C. Lundstrom, Shannon A. Mahan, James B. Paces, Mark R. Hudson, P. Kyle House, Daniel V. Malmon, J. Luke Blair, and Keith A. Howard	411