 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | corridor in the Basin and Range Province of southern Nevada. In Finland and China, the tectonic setting was...Atlantic at ~130 Ma. The 20–15 Ma granites of southern Nevada were related to rifting that followed the Triassic–Paleogene...associated diabase and rhyolite dikes of southernmost Nevada, Basin and Range Province, represent a modern example...feldspar xenocrysts in a diabase dike cutting the biotite–hornblende granite of the Shachang pluton, China...cuts the Spirit Mountain granite in southernmost Nevada. Many of the alkali feldspar megacrysts in enclaves |  | Howard, K.A., John, Barbara E., Davis, G.A., Anderson, J.L., Gans, P.B. (1994) A guide to Miocene extension and magmatism in the lower Colorado River region, Nevada, Arizona, and California. Open-File Report Vol. 1994 (94-246) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr94246 | Report (issue) | | and Magmatism in the Lower Colorado River Region, Nevada, Arizona, and California by Keith A. Howard1,...and Magmatism in the Lower Colorado River Region, Nevada, Arizona, and California A guide for Field trip...and Range, south from the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada, is lower hi elevation and now mostly seismically...Framework The region along the Colorado River in Nevada, California, and Arizona was part of the stable...Mojave Desert, SA=San Andreas fault, SN=Sierra Nevada, T=easternTransverse Ranges. Box shows area of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA Abstract. The key to mantled feldspar...mafic-rich rock is produced, typically with hornblende, biotite, and relatively calcic plagioclase, in which pre-mixing...Mafic inclusions Not reported Clotty mafics Clotty biotite Mafic inclusions and clots Diabasic inclusions...Not reported Diabasic inclusions Biotite schlieran Fine-grained biotite ? Clotty mafics Diabasic inclusions...Mtns, MO Albany qtz syenite, NH Cedar Mtns., NV Newberry Mtns, NV Toiyabe Ra., NV Stillwater Ra., NV Gillis |  | | Report (volume) | | of the Newberry Mountains and Rod man Mountains Wilderness Study/ Areas,f San Bernardino County, California...of the Newberry Mountains and Rodman Mountains Wilderness Study Areas, San Bernardino County, California...Resources of the Newberry Mountains Rodman Mountains Wilderness Study Areas, Bernardino County, California...California Newberry Mountains Wilderness. 2. Mines and mineral resources California Rodman Mountains Wilderness...Geology California Newberry Mountains Wilderness. 4. Geology California Rodman Mountains Wilderness. 5. Newberry |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology Between Lake Mead and Davis Dam Arizona-Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 374-E Reconnaissance...Geology Between Lake Mead and Davis Dam Arizona-Nevada By CHESTER R. LONGWELL SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS TO...______________---_---__-___-__-------Structure of Black Mountains.-______________ Section along Boulder Canyon__-_---_-__Structure...Black Mountains ___________ Boulder Basin to Eldorado Wash _________ Northern Eldorado Mountains block..._____________--_--_Eldorado Wash to Newberry Mountains. __ Structure east of Newberry Mountains _ _ _ _ Dating of faults |  | | Report (issue) | | AND IRETEBA PEAKS WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS, CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA By JAMES E. CONRAD*, GARY A. NOWLAN* £7...Peaks (NV-050-438) Wilderness Study Areas, Clark County, Nevada. 11 CONTENTS Summary 1 Abstract 1 Character...and Ireteba Peaks Wilderness Study Areas, Clark County, Nevada 17 2. Summary of geochemical characteristics...and Ireteba Peaks Wilderness Study Areas, Clark County, Nevada, based on analyses of samples of stream...and Ireteba Peaks Wilderness Study Areas, Clark County, Nevada 2 2. Map showing mineral resource potential |  | | Report (volume) | | Index of Granitic Rock Masses in the State of Nevada By FLORIAN MALDONADO, RICHARD W. SPENGLER, W.F....on 205 areas of exposed granitic rock masses in Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1831 DEPARTMENT...Data Index of granitic rock masses in the state of Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1831) Bibliography:...Docs. no.: I 19.3:1831 1. Granite-Nevada. 2. Intrusions (Geology) -Nevada. I. Maldonado, Florian. II. United...study 2 Clark County 9 Geology 9 Plutons 9 Lincoln County 1S Geology 1S Plutons 1S Southern Nye County 17 |  | | Report (issue) | | in a Cordilleran metamorphic complex, Whipple Mountains, California.....................................and Range Province in the vicinity of Lake Mead, Nevada and Arizona ............................... Robert...structure of a portion of the Bristol Mountains, San Bernardino County, California.........................Mojave and western Sonoran Deserts, California, Nevada, and Arizona ....................................igneous activity in the Little Maria Mountains, Riverside County, California......................... |  | | Journal (volume) | | classes 1. Mines and mineral resources of a given county or area (describing kind, character, distribution...SUMMARY 10 Imperial County, Cargo Muchacho and Picacho District Inyo County, Argus Range and Skidoo... 10 Kern County, Mojave, Tropico, Kernville and Randsburg Districts Los Angeles County 10 11 Mono...Mono County, Bodie, Blind Springs Hill, Masonic, and Silverado Districts Mono Leake, May Lundy 11 ... Riverside County, Chuckawalla, Eagle Mountains, Pinto Basin and Pinacate Districts 11 San Bernardino |  | | Report (chapter) | | headwall breakaway, best expressed in the Old Woman Mountains, California. Successively higher and more distal...of basement rocks above the Chemehuevi-Whipple Mountains detachment fault(s). Hanging wall blocks tilt...interpreted as rooting under the unbroken Hualapai Mountains and Colorado Plateau on the down-dip side of the...Chemehuevi, Mohave, Bill Williams, Buck, and Hualapai Mountains. Other tilt domains lie to the NW, SW, and SE...Whipple and Rawhide Mountains (Davis et al. 1980; Frost & Martin 1982a), Chemehuevi Mountains (John 1982, this |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3315, USA Editorial responsibility: T. Grove Tectonic reorganization...in many respects similar to rocks of the Sierra Nevada batholith of central Californa. Numerous workers...Despite extensive work of this nature on the Sierra Nevada batholith, Mesozic batholithic rocks of the central...framework which has been proposed for the Sierra Nevada and Peninsular Ranges batholiths (DePaolo 1981)...mixing model which has been proposed for the Sierra Nevada and Peninsular Ranges batholiths is constructed |  | Lowery Claiborne, L., Miller, C. F., Walker, B. A., Wooden, J. L., Mazdab, F. K., Bea, F. (2006) Tracking magmatic processes through Zr/Hf ratios in rocks and Hf and Ti zoning in zircons: An example from the Spirit Mountain batholith, Nevada. Mineralogical Magazine, 70 (5) 517-543 doi:10.1180/0026461067050348 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | An example from the Spirit Mountain batholith, Nevada L. LOWERY CLAIBORNE1, C. F. MILLER1, B. A. WALKER1...Engineering Bldg., Stevenson Center Dr., Nashville, TN, USA 2 US Geological Survey, USGS-Stanford Micro-isotopic...University, Green Building, 367 Panama St., Stanford, CA, USA 3 Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Campus...zircon zonation in the Spirit Mountain batholith, Nevada, document repeated fractionation and thermal fluctuations...composition and temperature. Spirit Mountain batholith, Nevada: Case study of evolving Zr/Hf preserved in rocks |  | | Report (chapter) | | Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA (e-mail." dfoster@geology, ufl.edu) 3Department of...Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, W Y 82071, USA Abstract: The Colorado River extensional corridor...illuminates processes of extension and exhumation. Biotite and K-feldspar 4°Ar-39Ar, and zircon and apatite...Abbreviations on the inset: V, Virgin Mountains; K, Kern-Deep Creek Mountains. footwall rocks. Specifically...headwall breakaway between the Turtle and Old Woman Mountains (Howard & John 1987). Low-angle normal or detachment |  | | Report (issue) | | (Wilson and Roseveare, 1945,- p.* 5.-)1 Gi*eenlee- County* Undeveloped gray to black perlite^ associated...agglomerate..194&, p, 11,)' (Wood,- ; Maa?icopa!- County? Deposit of dar'k^gr'ay perlite nea-f Aquilav (Wood...- 11.-) ^ Deposits iri the western part- of fee county.- (Wilson and Rosevear'e, 1945,p/ 5.-) The following...in the Black Mountains, Per lite occurs in the east-central- part of the Black Mountains,- in T.- 22 and...southward for' about- one-quarter mile.The'Biack- Mountains attain- an-aititude of 5# 500 feet-.- The southern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exposed in tilt blocks, Eldorado Mountains, Colorado River Rift, NV, USA Calvin F. Miller a,*, Jonathan...TN 37235, USA b Department of Geology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0102, USA Received...Solidification front; Colorado River extensional corridor; Nevada 1. Introduction 1.1. The anatomy of plutons: the...south of Las Vegas, NV, that includes parts of Nevada, Arizona and California along the Colorado River...Colorado River extensional corridor, southernmost Nevada and northwestern Arizona. Physiographic features: |  | | Book | | DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS OF PALEOGENE ROCKS NEAR ELKO, NEVADA . . . . . . . . . . . Barry J. Solomon; Edwin H...75 CENOZOIC VOLCANISM IN THE NEWBERRY MOUNTAINS, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . ....PALEOGENE NONMARINE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN EAST-CENTRAL NEVADA . . . . Thomas D. Fouch 97 PETROLOGY OF PALEOGENE...STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS OF THE LAKE MEAD REGION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA .. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....EVIDENCE FOR A MIOCENE COOLING EVENT, WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS, SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . Roy |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist |  | Townsend, K.J, Miller, C.F, D'Andrea, J.L, Ayers, J.C, Harrison, T.M, Coath, C.D (2001) Low temperature replacement of monazite in the Ireteba granite, Southern Nevada: geochronological implications. Chemical Geology, 172 (1) 95-112 doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(00)00238-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | replacement of monazite in the Ireteba granite, Southern Nevada: geochronological implications K.J. Townsend a...NashÕille, TN 37235, USA Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA Abstract The...Wash pluton of the Eldorado and Newberry Mountains, southern Nevada ŽMiller et al., 1997; D’Andrea, 1998...Ireteba granite, located in the Eldorado Mountains, southern Nevada ŽFig. 1., is a two-mica granite composed...of plagioclase and potassium feldspars, quartz, biotite, muscovite, and accessory Fig. 1. Sketch map of |  | | Report (chapter) | | Library on June 21, 2015 The Northern Sacramento Mountains, southwest United States. Part Ih Exhumation history...32611, USA 4 United States Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA 5 Present...the Sacramento Mountains metamorphic core complex. In the northwest Sacramento Mountains, cooling rates...the thermal profile of the northeast Sacramento Mountains is dominated by syntectonic Tertiary plutonism...two areas clearly suggests that the Sacramento Mountains experienced a regional cooling event associated | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst |  | | Report (issue) | | BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF A PART OF THE NORTHERN CADY MOUNTAINS, MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA BY Susan T. Miller...Paleogeographic relationship between the northern Cady Mountains and other Miocene sequences in the central Mojave...—— Lower Cady Mountains local fauna————————————————————————————— Upper Cady Mountains local fauna———... Generalized columnar section, northern Cady Mountains——————— 5. Block diagram of paleogeographic setting...setting, Hector Formation, northern Cady Mountains—————————————————————————————— 6-7. Outcrop photographs |  | | Report (chapter) | | Special Publications The Northern Sacramento Mountains, southwest United States. Part I: Structural profile...on September 7, 2012 The Northern Sacramento Mountains, southwest United States. Part I: Structural profile...Abstract: Miocene exhumation of the Sacramento Mountains metamorphic core complex in the Colorado River...Structural and petrofabric data from the Sacramento Mountains suggest that increasing structural depth/temperature...uplift and cooling of the northern Sacramento Mountains in the Miocene facilitated the preservation of |  | | Report (issue) | | STATE OF NEVADA Open-file Report 79-235 1979 Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Nevada Operations...SURVEY INVENTORY OF GRANITIC MASSES IN THE STATE OF NEVADA Compiled by Richard W. Spengler, Florian Maldonado...--------------------------------------------Clark County--------------------------------------------...---------------------------------------Lincoln County-----------------------------------------------...----------------------------------Southern Nye County----------------------------------------------- |  | Colombini, Lindy L., Miller, Calvin F., Gualda, Guilherme A. R., Wooden, Joseph L., Miller, Jonathan S. (2011) Sphene and zircon in the Highland Range volcanic sequence (Miocene, southern Nevada, USA): elemental partitioning, phase relations, and influence on evolution of silicic magma. Mineralogy and Petrology, 102 (1) 29-50 doi:10.1007/s00710-011-0177-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Highland Range volcanic sequence (Miocene, southern Nevada, USA): elemental partitioning, phase relations, and...ranging from diorite to granite in southern Nevada, USA, but it is restricted to rhyolites in coeval...2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235-1805, USA e-mail: calvin.miller@vanderbilt.edu L. L. Colombini... 367 Panama Street Room 89, Stanford, CA 94305, USA J. S. Miller Department of Geology, San Jose State...University, Duncan Hall 320, San Jose, CA 95112-0102, USA sphene fractionation. Whole rocks and glasses have |  | | Report (issue) | | Sidewinder Mountain, Stoddard Ridge, and the Ord Mountains (Bortugno and Spittler, 1986). Originally grouped...sandstone, all composed exclusively of fragments of biotite-homblende rhyodacite. They and the underlying lower...Elephant Mountain, which consists of identical biotite-homblende rhyodacite. Apparently, debris from pyroclastic...far to the south in the western San Bernardino Mountains, where the headwaters of the Mojave River are...intrude. Rhyodatite of Elephant Mountain Resistant biotite-hornblende rhyodacite (unit Tre) forms a north-trending |
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