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Shoofly-Olds Ferry
Basement domain in the Western Cordillera
Geologic information
Region
Western Cordillera
Crust
Type:
Oceanic arc
Formation age:
365-187 Ma
Accretion
Type:
Collisional
Age:
135 Ma
Geographic extent
Alpine
,
Amador
,
Calaveras
,
Fresno
,
Lassen
,
Madera
,
Mariposa
,
Modoc
,
Mono
,
Nevada
,
Placer
,
Plumas
,
Shasta
,
Sierra
,
Tehama
,
Trinity
,
Ada
,
Adams
,
Canyon
,
Gem
,
Idaho
,
Owyhee
,
Payette
,
Washington
,
Churchill
,
Douglas
,
Humboldt
,
Lyon
,
Mineral
,
Nye
,
Pershing
,
Storey
,
Washoe
,
Carson City
,
Baker
,
Grant
,
Harney
,
Jackson
,
Klamath
,
Lake
,
Malheur
Bibliographic references
Edelman, S.E., and Sharp, W.D., 1989, Terranes, early faults, and pre-Late Jurassic amalgamation of the western Sierra Nevada metamorphic belt, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 1420–1433.
Snow, C.A., and Scherer, H., 2006, Terranes of the Western Sierra Nevada Foothills metamorphic belt, California: A critical review: International Geology Review, v. 48, p. 46–62.
Northrup, C.J., Schmitz, M., Kurz, G., and Tumpane, K., 2011, Tectonomagmatic evolution of distinct arc terranes in the Blue Mountains Province, Oregon and Idaho: Geological Society of America Field Guide, v. 21, p. 67–88.