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Title: Late Cenozoic evolution of the southern Great Basin
Author: Michael A. Ellis
Year: 1989
Series: Open-File Report 1989-01
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Selected papers from a workshop including:
- Overview of the role of strike-slip and normal faulting in the Neogene history of the region northeast of Death Valley, California-Nevada, by Lauren Wright;
- Timing and relation of volcanism of Cenozoic extension in east-central Nevada, by Wanda Taylor and John Bartley;
- Isostatic uplift, crustal attenuation, and the evolution of an extensional detachment system in southwestern Nevada, by Robert B. Scott;
- Structural geology of the Indian Springs 1:100,000 quadrangle, southern Nevada, and the role of mantle-tapping in Great Basin volcanism, by Peter L. Guth;
- Mid-Miocene igneous rocks in the Lake Mead area of Nevada and Arizona--production of intermediate igneous rocks in an extensional environment, by Eugene "accommodation zones" in rifted continental crust--an example from the southern Basin and Range province, by James E. Faulds, Chris K. Mawer, John W. Geissman;
- Lake Valley, Nevada, by Thomas L. Sawyer;
- The use of the relative comparison approach at Yucca Mountain and similarities between Yucca Mountain and the 1932 Cedar Mountain earthquake area, by Craig M. dePolo, John W. Bell, and Alan R. Ramelli;
- Application of a refined method for determining principal stress orientations in southern Nevada, by Virgil A. Frizzell and Mary Lou Zoback;
- Paleomagnetic research in the Basin and Range province, western United States--historical perspective, applications, and limitations, by John William Geissman, Mark R. Hudson, James T. Faulds, James T. Callian, Steve S. Harlan, Qing Huang, and Yianping Li;
- Earthquake clustering near Mina, Nevada, July and August 1987; by Kenneth D. Smith, William R. Walter, Raul R. Castro, Keith F. Priestley, and Abdol R. Anooshepoor;
- Source parameters of the 1987 Edgecumbe New Zealand earthquake, by Keith F. Priestley and Russel Robinson;
- Rates and patterns of piedmont evolution in the southwest Basin and Range, by John Dohrenwend; Late Quaternary paleoclimate studies-geologic problems and questions, by Emily M. Taylor.
All articles but the last two have references. Papers originally presented at a workshop at the University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, November 10-13, 1987, under the auspices of the Center for Neotectonic Studies, convened by D. B. Slemmons, R. A. Schweickert, and J. W. Bell.
Original Product Code: OF891
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