Field Guide to Plutons, Volcanoes, Faults, Reefs, Dinosaurs, and Possible Glaciation in Selected Areas of Arizona (repost)
Field Guide to Plutons, Volcanoes, Faults, Reefs, Dinosaurs, and Possible Glaciation in Selected Areas of Arizona, California, and Nevada by Ernest M. Duebendorfer (ed.)
English | 2008 | ISBN-10: 0813700116 | PDF | 262 pages | 32 MB
English | 2008 | ISBN-10: 0813700116 | PDF | 262 pages | 32 MB
Welcome to Las Vegas! This guidebook has been prepared in conjunction with the 2008 combined Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Sections meeting of the Geological Society of America. This volume contains background information and road logs for eleven fi eld trips in Nevada, Arizona, and California.
Southern Nevada and adjoining areas contain a rich geologic history spanning the interval from the Paleoproterozoic to the present. Las Vegas lies at or near several critical geological junctures and localities including the structural boundary between the Colorado Plateau and Basin and Range, the physiographic boundary between the Great Basin and the southern Basin and Range, the eastern margin of the Sevier foldand-thrust belt, the tectonically active Death Valley area, tilted and faulted volcanic-plutonic systems exposing the upper part of the crust, and the enigmatic “amagmatic zone.”…