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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"walker lane"”.
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Active Faulting in the Northern Walker Lane and Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance in the Central Walker Lane, Nevada and Eastern California
The Walker Lane is a region of diverse tectonic activity situated along the Pacific-North American plate boundary. Unmapped and under characterized faults within the northern Walker Lane are associated with large uncertainties in the location and frequency of potential earthquakes in the greater …
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Contributions to the Neotectonics of the central and northern Walker Lane
The Walker Lane is a well-known intraplate shear zone located east of the Sierra Nevada that accommodates a significant portion of the North American - Pacific Plate relative transform motion. It its defined by a broad zone of discontinuous active strike-slip and normal faulting that sit within a …
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Geologic Mapping along the Benton Spring Fault, Nevada: Dextrally-offset Tuff-filled Paleovalleys in the Central Walker Lane
… the U.S. Cordillera. Within the Cordillera, the Walker Lane, characterized by active intracontinental faults, straddles the western edge of the Basin and Range Province and the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada. In the Gabbs Valley Range, central Nevada, eastern Central Walker Lane, I combine new …
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Spatial and Temporal Characterization of the Petrified Springs Fault, Central Walker Lane, Nevada: Documenting Middle Miocene Dextral Slip
<p>The Central Walker Lane, NV is an active dextral shear zone superimposed on the western boundary of the Basin and Range extensional province. Approximately 25% of dextral shear along the Pacific-North American plate boundary accommodated in the Walker Lane, a NW-striking, intracontinental …
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Paleomagnetic data bearing on the evolution of the Walker Lane Belt transfer zone from mid-Miocene to present : an investigation of the inferred southern and eastern boundaries
The Walker Lane Belt (WLB) transfer zone, which initiated in the mid-Miocene, presently links the Eastern California Shear Zone in the south to the Central Nevada Seismic Belt and northern WLB to the northeast and north, respectively. The boundaries of the transfer system are clear on the northern …
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Characterization of a blind geothermal prospect through LiDAR analysis and shallow temperature survey, Gabbs Valley, Nye and Mineral Co., NV
… between NW directed dextral shear in the Walker Lane and WNW-ESE extension in the Basin and Range. The tectonics at the prospect site were investigated using Quaternary fault mapping from LiDAR and low sun-angle aerial photos. Reconnaissance geochemistry from a spring seep on a Holocene …
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Mineral Ridge: A Late Cretaceous Orogenic Gold System in the Miocene Silver Peak-Lone Mountain Metamorphic Core Complex
… with detachment and transtension in the Walker Lane deformation belt.
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Tectonic Exhumation and Climate Driven Erosion in Extensional Mountain Blocks: Two Examples from California, USA
… timescales is debated. In the eastern California-Walker Lane shear zone, exposures of sedimentary basin fill allow inversion of erosion- and sediment-flux rates from a linked catchment-fan system within an extensional block. In this dissertation, I present two field and geo-thermochronology based …
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Stratigraphy and Structure of the Miocene "Esmeralda" Formation in Stewart Valley, Mineral County, Nevada
… is mainly a strike-slip fault associated with Walker Lane and most of the displacement on the fault was horizontal.</p> <p>During most of the Miocene the valley was tectonically stable and the main drainage was south. The lake that formed in the valley fluctuated in size and depth, at times …