Geological Survey Bulletin 1991 Late Quaternary Faulting Along the Death Valley-Furnace Creek Fault System, California and Nevada

Cover

Abstract

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Methods

Furnace Creek fault zone

Chiatovich Creek section
Dyer section
Oasis section
Horse Thief Canyon section
Cucomungo Canyon section
Sand Spring section
Grapevine Canyon section
Redwall fan section
Titus fan section
Mesquite Flat section
Death Valley Buttes section
Beatty Junction section

Death Valley fault zone

Salt Springs section
Mustard Canyon section
Golden Canyon section
Artists Drive section
Badwater turtleback section
Black Mountains section
Copper Canyon turtleback section
Willow Creek section
Gregory Peak section
North Ashford Mill section
South Ashford Mill section

Chronology of late Quaternary faulting

Faulting inferred to be late Pleistocene to middle Holocene (Q₂ and Q_1C age; older than 2,000 years)
Late Holocene faulting (Q_1B and Q_1A age; younger than 2,000 years)

Conclusions

References

PLATES

[Plates are in pocket]

1. Map of linear features of the Furnace Creek fault zone between the Chiatovich and Mesquite Flat sections (omitted from the online edition)

2. Map of linear features of the Furnace Creek fault zone between the Death Valley Buttes and Beatty Junction sections (omitted from the online edition)

3. Map of linear features of the Death Valley fault zone between the Mustard Canyon and Black Mountains sections (omitted from the online edition)

4. Map of linear features of the Death Valley fault zone between the Copper Canyon turtleback and south Ashford Mill sections (omitted from the online edition)

FIGURES

1. Map of the region surrounding the Death Valley—Furnace Creek fault system

2. Reference map of the Death Valley—Furnace Creek fault system

3. Diagram of profiles of successively older fault-scarp morphology

4. Diagram of slope angle versus age for fault scarps in bedrock and fanglomerate

5—7. Sketch maps of scarp pattern and Quaternary units in part of the:

1. Geomorphic features associated with active faults, ranked approximately by frequency of occurrence

2. General characteristics of geomorphic surfaces

3. Summary of Quaternary faulting along the Furnace Creek fault zone

4. Summary of Quaternary faulting along the Death Valley fault zone

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
MANUEL LUJAN, JR., Secretary

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Dallas L. Peck, Director

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brogan, George E.
Late Quaternary faulting along the Death Valley—Furnace Creek fault system, California and Nevada / by George E. Brogan, Karl S. Kellogg, D. Burton Slemmons, and Christina L. Terhune.
p. cm. — (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin; 1991) Includes bibliographical references.
1. Neotectonics—California. 2. Neotectonics—Nevada. 3. Geology, Stratigraphic—Holocene. I. Kellogg, Karl S. II. Terhune, Christina L. III. Title. IV. Series.
QE75.B9     no. 1991
[QE511.42]
557.3 s—dc20          91—782
[551.8'7'09794]           CIP

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