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Structural relationships of pre-Tertiary rocks in the Nevada Test Site region, southern Nevada

Author(s) -

James H. Cole,

Patricia H. Cashman

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/10451

Subject(s) - geology , sinistral and dextral , foreland basin , seismology , classification of discontinuities , test site , structural geology , thrust fault , permian , paleontology , fault (geology) , tectonics , structural basin , mathematical analysis , mathematics

This report summarizes the evidence for a revised interpretation of major structural features in the pre-Tertiary rocks of the region including and surrounding the Nevada Test Site. The thick miogeoclinal section of Late Proterozoic through Lower Permian sedimentary strata records major foreland-vergent thrust faulting, younger hinterland-vergent folding and thrusting, and local extension on low-angle normal faults. In addition, structural discontinuities in the northeastern part of the Nevada Test Site strongly suggest a broad, north-trending zone of sinistral strike-slip faulting that may have had a cumulative offset of many kilometers

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