Geological Survey Professional Paper 197—D The Basin and Range Province in Utah, Nevada, and California

Cover

Abstract

Introduction

History of exploration

Acknowledgments

Stratigraphic and igneous history

Pre-Cambrian rocks
Paleozoic rocks
   Cambrian system
      Lower Cambrian
      Middle Cambrian
      Upper Cambrian
   Ordovician system
      Lower Ordovician
      Middle Ordovician
      Upper Ordovician
   Silurian system
   Devonian system
      Lower Devonian
      Middle Devonian
      Upper Devonian
   Mississippian series
      Lower Mississippian
      Upper Mississippian
   Pennsylvanian series
   Permian series
Mesozoic rocks
   Triassic system
      Lower Triassic
      Middle Triassic
      Upper Triassic
   Jurassic system
      Lower Jurassic
      Middle Jurassic
      Upper Jurassic
   Cretaceous system
Cenozoic rocks
   Tertiary system
      Eocene
      Oligocene
      Miocene
      Pliocene
      Summary of Tertiary sedimentation and volcanism
   Quaternary system

Structural history

Principal features
Pre-Cambrian orogeny
Paleozoic and early Mesozoic disturbances
Later Mesozoic and early Tertiary orogeny
   Nature of the deformation
      Folds and thrust
      Normal faults
      Transverse structural features
   Duration and age of orogeny
   Significance of orogeny
Later Tertiary and Quaternary orogeny
   Block faulting
      Historical review
      Evidence indicative of faulting
      Nature of the block faults
      Age of the block faulting
      Origin of the block faulting
   Folding and thrusting
      Garlock fault
      San Andreas rift
      Other areas

Mineral resources

Bibliography

Index (omitted from the online edition)

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
W. C. Mendenhall, Director

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PLATE

40. Stratigraphic sections of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in belts parallel to the axis of the Cordilleran geosyncline

41. Stratigraphic sections of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in belts normal to the axis of the Cordilleran geosyncline

FIGURE

10. Map showing outlines of the portion of the Basin and Range province described in this paper and the localities to which reference is made

11. Map of the Pleistocene lakes in the Great Basin region

12. Distribution of known thrust faults in the Great Basin region

13. Block faulting in three areas in Utah: A, Stockton and Fairfield quadrangles; B, A portion of the southern Wasatch Range; C, Gold Hill quadrangle