Interior western United States (GSA Field Guide 6)

Interior western United States......Page 1
Field Guide 6......Page 2
ISBN 0-8137-0006-X......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
01- Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group of northeastern Utah:
Pre-Sturtian geographic, tectonic, and biologic evolution......Page 6
02- Basaltic volcanism of the central and western Snake River Plain: A
guide to field relations between Twin Falls and Mountain Home, Idaho......Page 32
03- From cirques to canyon cutting: New Quaternary research in
the Uinta Mountains......Page 58
04- Geomorphology and rates of landscape change in the Fremont River
drainage, northwestern Colorado Plateau......Page 84
05- Late Cretaceous stratigraphy, depositional environments, and
macrovertebrate paleontology of the Kaiparowits Plateau,
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah......Page 106
06- Transect across the northern Walker Lane, northwest Nevada and
northeast California: An incipient transform fault along the
Pacific–North American plate boundary......Page 134
07- Brittle deformation, fluid flow, and diagenesis in sandstone at Valley
of Fire State Park, Nevada......Page 156
08- Evolution of a late Cenozoic supradetachment basin above a
flat-on-flat detachment with a folded lateral ramp, SE Idaho......Page 174
09- Utah’s state rock and the Emery coalfield: Geology, mining history,
and natural burning coal beds......Page 204
10- Latest Pleistocene–early Holocene human occupation and
paleoenvironmental change in the Bonneville Basin, Utah–Nevada......Page 216
11- Neotectonics and paleoseismology of the Wasatch fault, Utah......Page 236
12- Pocatello Formation and overlying strata, southeastern Idaho:
Snowball Earth diamictites, cap carbonates, and Neoproterozoic
isotopic profiles......Page 256
13- Anatomy of reservoir-scale normal faults in central Utah:
Stratigraphic controls and implications for fault zone evolution
and fluid flow......Page 266
14- Sheet-like emplacement of satellite laccoliths, sills, and bysmaliths of
the Henry Mountains, Southern Utah......Page 288
15- Folds, fabrics, and kinematic criteria in rheomorphic ignimbrites of
the Snake River Plain, Idaho: Insights into emplacement and flow......Page 316
16- Mesozoic lakes of the Colorado Plateau......Page 334
17- Birth of the lower Colorado River—Stratigraphic and geomorphic
evidence for its inception near the conjunction of Nevada, Arizona,
and California......Page 362
18- Development of Miocene faults and basins in the Lake Mead region:
A tribute to Ernie Anderson and a review of new research on basins......Page 394
19- Don R. Currey Memorial Field Trip to the shores of Pleistocene
Lake Bonneville......Page 424
20- Paleoseismology and geomorphology of the Hurricane Fault
and Escarpment......Page 454
21- Recognition and interpretation of isolated shelf turbidite bodies in the
Cretaceous Western Interior, Book Cliffs, Utah......Page 484
22- Geologic hazards of the Wasatch Front, Utah......Page 510
Back cover / Contents......Page 530