Geol 4701/6701
Death Valley Field Trip
Reading Assignments and Class Schedule for Tuesday,
 February 12

Geophysical and Tectonic Overview of the Western United States

11:25 – 11:40 Yincai Zheng - Humphreys, E.D., and K. G. Dueker (1994).  Physical State of the Western U.S. Upper Mantle, Jour. Geophys. Res., vol 99, 9635-9650.

11:40 – 11:55  Angela Owen - Humphreys, E.D. (1995).  Post-Laramide Removal of the Farallon Slab, Western United States, Geology, vol 23, 987-990.
 

Regional Structure of the Basin and Range Province

11:55 – 12:10 Mark Cleveland - Stewart, J. H.(1971). Basin and range structure: a system of horsts and grabens produced by deep-seated extension, G.S.A. Bull., 82, 1019-1044.

12:10 – 12:25 Chris Garner - Wright, L. (1976).  Late Cenozoic fault patterns and stress fields in the Great Basin and westward displacement of the Sierra Nevada block, Geology, 4, 489-494.

12:25 – 12:40  Ivan Rabak - Wernicke, B., G. J. Axen, J. Kent Snow (1988).  Basin and range extensional tectonics at the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada, G.S.A. Bull., 100, 1738-1757.

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