Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Creator:: Pendergast, Margaret Anne
Abstract:: The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian limestones include numerous...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Carpenter, James Anthony
Abstract:: Detailed geologic mapping in the Mormon Mountains and new geophysical data provide significant insight into contractional and extensional tectonics in southern Nevada, southwest Utah, and northwest Arizona. The rocks in the region were complexly deformed during two distinct tectonic episodes. Numerous interrelated events occurred within each episode. The first tectonic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Carpenter, Daniel G.
Abstract:: The North Muddy Mountains are located in southern Nevada, about 65 km northeast of Las Vegas and near the eastern boundary of the Basin and Range province. The north-south-trending range block is bounded on the east and west, respectively, by east- and west-dipping, high-angle normal faults. Sevier age contractional and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU