Geology of the Funeral Peak quadrangle, California, on the east flank of Death Valley

Abstract

Quartz monzonite and porphyritic quartz latite. General description. ____________________ Petrography ___________________________ Porphyritic quartz monzonite ________________ General description _____________________ Petrography-_-_-___-___-__________ Dikes associated with the monzonitic rocks_ __ Petrology of the monzonitic rocks.____________ Age of the monzonitic rocks__________________ Tertiary volcanic and sedimentary rocks.__-_____-Older volclanics-____________________________ Extrusive and sedimentary rocks..________ General description.________________ Lava flows_________________________ Petrology._____________________ Pyroclastic rocks _______________ Epiclastic rocks_______________ Origin and environment___-______._-Intrusive rocks _________________________ General description _________________

Stratigraphy and structure, Death Valley, California

“…Tertiary forma·tions in the Black Mountains have been studied and reported on by Noble (1941), Curry (1939, and Drewes (1963), and by J. F.…”

“…The mapping of the Precambrian rocks in the Black Mountains was done by Harald Drewes ( 1963) . The distribution of the formations is shown on the geologic map (pl.…”

“…The rocks of the Black Moun~'tins have been described by Drewes (1963) who has mapped the Funeral Peak quadrangle. The following descriptions are summarized from his report.…”

“…At Mormon Point the Funeral Formation overlaps and is faulted against the steeply dipping surface on the Precambrian metamorphic rocks (Drewes, 1959). The overlapped surface is a turtleback fault surface, very likely the Amargosa thrust, from which the overlying rocks have been stripped (Noble, 1941;Curry, 1954).…”

Finite-element simulation of ground-water flow in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nevada-California

“…An overview of the general geology of the southern Great Basin is provided in Stewart (1980). The geology of the Nevada Test Site and vicinity was reported by Drewes (1963), Moench (1965), Byers and others (1976), Hoover and Morrison (1980), and U.S. Geological Survey (1984). Geologic and structural maps of the Nevada Test Site and vicinity were produced by McKay and Williams (1964), Lipman and McKay (1965), Orkild and 0'Connor (1970), and R. B. Scott and R. W. Spengler (U.S. Geological Survey, written commun., 1981).…”