Field guide to plutons, volcanoes, faults, reefs, dinosaurs, and possible glaciation in selected areas of Arizona, California, and Nevada
[Book]
edited by Ernest M. Duebendorfer, Eugene I. Smith
Boulder, Colo. :
Geological Society of America,
2008
1 online resource (v, 262 pages) :
illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Field guide / Geological Society of America ;
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Includes bibliographical references
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 -- Late Paleozoic deformation in central and southern Nevada / Pat Cashman [and others] -- Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone / Kurt L. Frankel [and others] -- 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 -- Magmatism and tectonics in a tilted crustal section through a continental arc, eastern Transverse Ranges and southern Mojave Desert / Andrew P. Barth [and others] -- 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 -- Interpretation of Pleistocene glaciation in the Spring Mountains of Nevada: pros and cons / Jerry Osborn, Matthew Lachniet and Marvin (Nick) Saines -- 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 -- 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 [and others] -- 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 -- Dinosaurs and dunes! Sedimentology and paleontology of the Mesozoic in the Valley of Fire state park / Joshua W. Bonde [and others]
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This title, prepared in conjunction with the 2008 joint meeting of the GSA Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Sections, contains background information and road logs for eleven field trips in Nevada, Arizona, and California. With guides spanning the geologic record from the Ediacaran (late Neoproterozoic) to the Holocene, covering ground from the middle crust to the surface, and looking at topics from tectonics to paleontology, volcanism to glaciation, this volume offers something for everyone
Field guide to plutons, volcanoes, faults, reefs, dinosaurs, and possible glaciation in selected areas of Arizona, California, and Nevada.