The purpose of this study was to test two hypotheses. The first
hypothesis interprets allochthonous rocks in the Willow Creek area of the
Pinyon Range as lying on flat, superficial thrusts that truncate the
underlying folded Mississippian rocks of the Antler flysch sequence.
The second hypothesis interprets the allochthonous rocks...
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
John Henry Whitaker for the degree of Master of Science
in Geology
The purpose of this study was to test two hypotheses. The first
hypothesis interprets allochthonous rocks in the Willow Creek area of the
Pinyon Range as lying on flat, superficial thrusts that truncate the
underlying folded Mississippian rocks of the Antler flysch sequence.
The second hypothesis interprets the allochthonous rocks...
The purpose of this study was to test two hypotheses. The first
hypothesis interprets allochthonous rocks in the Willow Creek area of the
Pinyon Range as lying on flat, superficial thrusts that truncate the
underlying folded Mississippian rocks of the Antler flysch sequence.
The second hypothesis interprets the allochthonous rocks...
Joseph Reddeford Walker conducted
a party of men across the Sierra Nevada to the
Pacific coast of California in 1833. Previous
interpretations of the portion of the route
from Humboldt Sink, Nevada, to the San Joaquin
River, California, are not satisfactory. A
body of descriptions of the terrain traversed
exists...
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by
JOHN JOSEPH ZERNEL
A RESEARCH PAPER
submitted to
THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
OREGON STATE UNI
