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| State | California |
|---|---|
| Name | Precambrian granitic rocks, unit 1 (Eastern Mojave Desert) |
| Geologic age | Early Proterozoic to Miocene |
| Original map label | grpC |
| Comments | Southeastern California. Plutonic and metamorphosed plutonic rocks of varied composition and age |
| Primary rock type | granite |
| Secondary rock type | granodiorite |
| Other rock types | gneiss; diorite; gabbro; anorthosite; syenite |
| Lithologic constituents | |
| Map references | Jennings, C.W., Strand, R.G., and Rogers, T.H., 1977, Geologic map of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:750,000. |
| Unit references | Jennings, C.W., Strand, R.G., and Rogers, T.H., 1977, Geologic map of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:750,000. Jennings, C.W., 1985, An explanatory text to accompany the 1:750,000 scale fault and geologic maps of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, Bulletin 201, 197 p. Streitz, Robert, and Stinson, M.C., 1977, Geologic map of California, Death Valley sheet, scale 1:250,000. Jennings, C.W., 1961, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Kingman sheet, scale 1:250,000. Bishop, C.C., 1964, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Needles sheet, scale 1:250,000. Jennings, C.W., 1967, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Salton Sea sheet, scale 1:250,000. Jennings, C.W., Burnett, J.L., and Troxel, B.W., 1963, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Trona sheet, scale 1:250,000. Powell, R.E., 1993, Balanced palinspastic reconstruction of pre-late Cenozoic paleogeology, southern California: Geologic and kinematic constraints on evolution of the San Andreas fault system, in Powell, R.E., Weldon, R.J., II, and Matti, J.C., eds., The San Andreas fault system: Displacement, palinspastic reconstruction, and geologic evolution: Geological Society of America Memoir 178, p. 1-106, scale 1:750,000. Howard, K.A., 2002, Geologic map of the Sheep Hole Mountains 30' x 60' quadrangle, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2344, scale 1:100,000. Stone, Paul, 1990, Preliminary geologic map of the Blythe 30' by 60' quadrangle, California and Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-497, scale 1:100,000. Miller, D.M., Miller, R.J., Nielson, J.E., Wilshire, H.G., Howard, K.A., and Stone, Paul, 1991, Preliminary geologic map of the East Mojave National Scenic Area, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-435, 8 p., scale 1:100,000. Howard, K.A., Stone, Paul, Pernokas, M.A., and Marviin, R.F., 1982, Geologic and geochronologic reconnaissance of the Turtle Mountains area, California: west border of the Whipple Mountains detachment terrane, in Frost, E.G., and Martin, D.L., eds., Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Colorado River region, California, Arizona, and Nevada: San Diego, Calif., Cordilleran Publishers, p. 341-354. John, B.E., 1987, Geometry and evolution of a mid-crustal extensional fault system: Chemehuevi Mountains, southeastern California, in Coward, M.P., Dewey, J.F., and Hancock, P.L., eds., Continental extensional tectonics: Geological Society Special Publications, v. 28, p. 313-335. Campbell-Stone, E., John, B.E., Foster, D.A., Geissman, J.W., and Livaccari, R.F., 2000, Mechanisms for accommodation of Miocene extension: Low-angle normal faulting, magmatism, and secondary breakaway faulting in the southern Sacramento Mountains, southeastern California: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 566-587. Hamilton, Warren, 1984, Generalized geologic map of the Big Maria Mountains region, northeastern Riverside County, southeastern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 84-407, scale 1:48,000, 7 p. |
| Geographic coverage | Riverside - San Bernardino |
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