Late Cenozoic stratigraphy and tephrochronology of the western Black Mountains piedmont, Death Valley, California: Implications for the tectonic development of Death Valley

Knott, Jeffrey R.; Sarna-Wojcicki, Andrei M.; Meyer, C.; Tinsley, John C.; Wells, Stephen; Wan, Elmira

doi:10.1130/0-8137-2333-7.345

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“…This work continued both in Death Valley and throughout southwestern North America, resulting in a relatively consistent alluvial fan stratigraphy for the region; however, subtle differences in the nomenclature exist between researchers, as illustrated in Table 1 (Denny, 1965;Hunt and Mabey, 1966;Reynolds, 1969;Hooke, 1972;Moring, 1986;Bull, 1991;Hooke and Dorn, 1992;Nishiizumi et al, 1993;Klinger, 2001a,d;Frankel and Dolan, 2007;Machette et al, 2001Machette et al, , 2008. From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, a series of detailed studies of the Quaternary geology and geomorphology was undertaken that resulted in a string of doctoral theses, field guides, and USGS publications (e.g., Troxel, 1986;Knott, 1998;Anderson, 1998;Professional Soil Scientists Association of California, 1998;Wright and Troxel, 1999;Klinger, 2001a,b,c,d;Machette et al, 2001). Sohn et al (2007) undertook the first comprehensive OSL dating study of Quaternary landforms in Death Valley.…”

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Beryllium-10 terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of Quaternary landforms in Death Valley

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Beryllium-10 terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of Quaternary landforms in Death Valley

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“…1; Reheis et al, 1993), Clayton ( Fig. 1; Reheis and Morrison, 1997), Owens (Smith et al, 1997), Searles (Jannik et al, 1991), and Manley (Knott et al, 1996). To the east in the Bonneville basin of Utah, however, the Bishop ash is contained within shallow-lake and fresh-water marsh deposits rather than deep-water sediment (Eardley et al, 1973;Oviatt et al, in press).…”

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“…Tule Lake in northern California was deep and dilute between 1.4 and 1.2 myr (Bradbury, 1991), and Searles Lake in southern California was fresh and overflowing from 1.2 to 1.0 myr (Smith et al, 1983;Jannik et al, 1991). A lake was probably present in Fish Lake Valley (Lake Rennie; Reheis et al, 1993) and possibly in Death Valley (Knott et al, 1996) at about 1 myr. Links to pluvial lakes north of the Lahontan basin at 760,000 yr are problematic because the Bishop ash has not 18 O marine oxygen-isotope record (data from Imbrie et al, 1993).…”

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Highest Pluvial-Lake Shorelines and Pleistocene Climate of the Western Great Basin

Reheis

1999

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Shoreline altitudes of several pluvial lakes in the western Great Basin of North America record successively smaller lakes from the early to the late Pleistocene. This decrease in lake size indicates a long-term drying trend in the regional climate that is not seen in global marine oxygen-isotope records. At ؉70 m above its late Pleistocene shoreline, Lake Lahontan in the early middle Pleistocene submerged some basins previously thought to have been isolated. Other basins known to contain records of older pluvial lakes that exceeded late Pleistocene levels include Columbus-Fish Lake (Lake Columbus-Rennie), Kobeh-Diamond (Lakes Jonathan and Diamond), Newark, Long (Lake Hubbs), and Clover. Very high stands of some of these lakes probably triggered overflows of previously internally drained basins, adding to the size of Lake Lahontan. Simple calculations based on differences in lake area suggest that the highest levels of these pluvial lakes required a regional increase in effective moisture by a factor of 1.2 to 3 relative to late Pleistocene pluvial amounts (assuming that effective moisture is directly proportional to the hydrologic index, or lake area/tributary basin area). These previously unknown lake levels reflect significant changes in climate, tectonics, and (or) drainage-basin configurations, and could have facilitated migration of aquatic species in the Great Basin.

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“…The locus of extension progressed westward with time [Wright et al, 1983[Wright et al, , 1984Wernicke, 1992], such that most extension east of Death Valley is pre-Pliocene, whereas major Pliocene and Quaternary extension characterizes Death Valley [Knott et al, 1999] and ranges to the west.…”

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Assessing vertical axis rotations in large‐magnitude extensional settings: A transect across the Death Valley extended terrane, California

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[1] Models for Neogene crustal deformation in the central Death Valley extended terrane, southeastern California, differ markedly in their estimates of upper crustal extension versus shear translations. Documentation of vertical axis rotations of range-scale crustal blocks (or parts thereof) is critical when attempting to reconstruct this highly extended region. To better define the magnitude, aerial extent, and timing of vertical axis rotation that could mark shear translation of the crust in this area, paleomagnetic data were obtained from Tertiary igneous and remagnetized Paleozoic carbonate rocks along a roughly east-west traverse parallel to about 36°N latitude. Sites were established in $7 to 5 Ma volcanic sequences (Greenwater Canyon and Brown's Peak) and the $10 Ma Chocolate Sundae Mountain granite in the Greenwater Range, $8.5 to 7.5 Ma and 5 to 4 Ma basalts on the east flank of the Black Mountains, the 10.6 Ma Little Chief stock and upper Miocene(?) basalts in the eastern Panamint Mountains, and Paleozoic Pogonip Group carbonate strata in the north central Panamint Mountains. At the site level, most materials yield readily interpretable paleomagnetic data. Group mean directions, after appropriate structural corrections, suggest no major vertical axis rotation of the Greenwater Range (e.g., D = 359°, I = 46°, a 95 = 8.0°, N = 12 (7 normal (N), 5 reversed (R) polarity sites)), little post-5 Ma rotation of the eastern Black Mountains (e.g., D = 006°, I = 61°, a 95 = 4.0°, N = 9 N, 6 R sites), and no significant post-10 Ma rotation of the Panamint Range (e.g., D = 181°, I = À51°, a 95 = 6.5°, N = 9 R sites). In situ data from the Greenwater Canyon volcanic rocks, Chocolate Sundae Mountain granite, Funeral Peak basalt rocks, the Little Chief stock, and Paleozoic carbonate rocks (remagnetized) are consistent with moderate south east-side-down tilting of the separate range blocks during northwest directed extension. The paleomagnetic data reported here suggest that the Panamints shared none of the 7 Ma to recent clockwise rotation of the Black Mountains crystalline core, as proposed in recent models for transtensional development of the central Death Valley extended terrane.

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Late Cenozoic stratigraphy and tephrochronology of the western Black Mountains piedmont, Death Valley, California: Implications for the tectonic development of Death Valley

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Beryllium-10 terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of Quaternary landforms in Death Valley

Beryllium-10 terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating of Quaternary landforms in Death Valley

Highest Pluvial-Lake Shorelines and Pleistocene Climate of the Western Great Basin

Assessing vertical axis rotations in large‐magnitude extensional settings: A transect across the Death Valley extended terrane, California

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