Geology of Death Valley: Landforms Crustal Extension Geologic History Road Guides

by MILLER, MARLI

• ISBN13: 9780757509506
• ISBN10: 0757509509
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-05-03
• Publisher: Kendall-Hunt

Table of Contents

About the Authors	v
Preface	vi
Introduction	vii
Death Valley's Active Geology	1	(32)
Active Faulting Along the Black Mountains Front	2	(5)
Alluvial Fans	7	(4)
Badlands Topography	11	(1)
The Black Mountains and the Basin Ranges from Dante's View	12	(2)
Playa Lakes and the Death Valley Salt Pan	14	(3)
Racetrack Playa	17	(3)
Lake Manly	20	(4)
Young Volcanic Features	24	(1)
Sand Dunes	25	(2)
Springs	27	(4)
Ventifacts	31	(2)
Shaping of the Present Landscape: Extensional Tectonics and the ``Basin and Range Event''	33	(16)
The Faults	34	(6)
The Ranges	40	(2)
The Basins	42	(2)
The Central Death Valley Plutonic-Volcanic Field	44	(2)
Amount and Style of Crustal Extension in Death Valley	46	(3)
Geologic History	49	(14)
The Ancient Basement and Prolonged Erosion	50	(1)
The Pahrump Group: Proterozoic Basins and Uplands	51	(2)
The Noonday Dolomite, Ibex Formation and Johnnie Formation: Foreshadowing the Environment of a Passive Continental Margin	53	(1)
The Stirling Quartzite, Wood Canyon Formation, and Zabriskie Quartzite: The Clastic Wedge of a Developing Continental Margin	54	(2)
The Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic Carbonate Shelf	56	(2)
The Closing of the Paleozoic Ocean in Mesozoic Time	58	(2)
The Missing Sedimentary Record and Beginnings of the Basin and Range Event	60	(1)
The Oligocene and Early Miocene Flood Plain and the Bordering Upland	60	(1)
Late Cenozoic Extension	61	(2)
Death Valley Road Guides	63	(46)
Road and Field Guide to the Northern Black Mountains	66	(15)
Road to Dante's View	81	(2)
Road to Ubehebe Crater and Scotty's Castle (Northern Death Valley)	83	(5)
Beatty Cut-off Road to Start of Titus Canyon Road	88	(3)
Titus Canyon	91	(9)
Western Park Boundary to Stovepipe Wells (Western Death Valley)	100	(9)
Appendices	109	(2)
Glossary	111	(4)
References	115