Mesozoic volcanic rocks, unit 3 (Mojave Desert, Death Valley area, and Eastern Sierra Nevada) (CAMZv3;0)

State	California
Name	Mesozoic volcanic rocks, unit 3 (Mojave Desert, Death Valley area, and Eastern Sierra Nevada)
Geologic age	Triassic to Cretaceous
Lithologic constituents	Major Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic (Pyroclastic-ash flow, Pyroclastic-tuff, Flow, Dike or sill, Volcaniclastic-volcanic breccia)Rhyodacite to dacite ash-flow tuffs, tuffs, flows, intrusions, and breccia Minor Sedimentary > Clastic (Bed)Mostly sandstone and conglomerate Igneous > Volcanic > Mafic-volcanic (Flow)Mostly basaltic lava flows; less abundant andesite Incidental Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
Comments	Southeastern California and eastern Sierra Nevada. Mostly rhyolitic to dacitic ignimbrites and tuffs. Includes andesite, basalt, pyroclastic rocks, and sedimentary rocks. In part strongly metamorphosed. Continental and marine
Stratigraphic units	Inyo Mountains Volcanic Complex, Sidewinder Volcanic Series, Warm Spring Fm. (part), Soda Mountain Fm. (part), Ord Mountain Group
References	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. Matthews, R.A., and Burnett, J.L., 1966, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Fresno sheet, scale 1:250,000. Jennings, C.W., 1961, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Kingman sheet, scale 1:250,000. Strand, R.G., 1967, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Mariposa sheet, scale 1:250,000. Bishop, C.C., 1964, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Needles sheet, scale 1:250,000. Rogers, T.H., 1969, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, San Bernardino 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. Koenig, J.B., 1963, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Walker Lake sheet, scale 1:250,000. Bortugno, E.J., and Spittler, T.E., 1986, Geologic map of the San Bernardino quadrangle, California: California Division of Mines and Geology, Regional Geologic Map Series, Map 3A, scale 1:250,000. Stewart, J.H., Carlson, J.E., and Johannsen, D.C., 1982, Geologic map of the Walker Lake 1ø x 2ø quadrangle, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1382-A, scale 1:250,000. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/mf1382A Bateman, P.C., 1992, Pre-Tertiary geologic map of the Mariposa 1ø by 2ø quadrangle, Sierra Nevada, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1960, scale 1:250,000. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i1960 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. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr90497 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. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr91435 Huber, N.K., Bateman, P.C., and Wahrhaftig, Clyde, 1989, Geologic map of Yosemite National Park and vicinity, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1874, scale 1:125,000. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i1874 Moore, J.G., and Sisson, T.W., 1987, Preliminary geologic map of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-651, 17 p., scale 1:125,000. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr87651 Dibblee, T.W., Jr., 1967, Areal geology of the western Mojave Desert, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 522, 153 p., scale 1:125,000. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp522 Dunne, G.C., Garvey, T.P., Oborne, Mark, Schneidereit, Daniel, Fritsche, A.E., and Walker, J.D., 1998, Geology of the Inyo Mountains Volcanic Complex: implications for Jurassic paleogeography of the Sierra magmatic arc in eastern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1376-1397. Dunne, G.C., Gulliver, R.M., and Sylvester, A.G., 1978, Mesozoic evolution of rocks of the White, Inyo, Argus, and Slate Ranges, eastern California, in Howell, D.G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 189-207. Dunne, G.C., and Walker, J.D., 1993, Age of Jurassic volcanism and tectonism, southern Owens Valley region, east-central California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 1223-1230. Fackler-Adams, B.N., Busby, C.J., and Mattinson, J.M., 1997, Jurassic magmatism and sedimentation in the Palen Mountains, southeastern California: implications for regional tectonic controls on the Mesozoic continental arc: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 1464-1484. Fiske, R.S., and Tobisch, O.T., 1978, Paleogeographic significance of volcanic rocks of the Ritter Range pendant, central Sierra Nevada, California, in Howell, D.G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 209-221. Fleck, R.J., Mattinson, J.M., Busby, C.J., Carr, M.D., Davis, G.A., and Burchfiel, B.C., 1994, Isotopic complexities and the age of the Delfonte volcanic rocks, eastern Mescal Range, southeastern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 1242-1253. Hanson, R.B., Saleeby, J.B., and Fates, D.G., 1987, Age and tectonic setting of Mesozoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks, northern White Mountains, California: Geology, v. 15, p. 1074-1078. Karish, C.R., Miller, E.L., and Sutter, J.F., 1987, Mesozoic tectonic and magmatic history of the central Mojave Desert, in Dickinson, W.R., and Klute, M.A., eds., Mesozoic rocks of southern Arizona and adjacent areas: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 18, p. 15-32. Miller, E.L., 1981, Geology of the Victorville region, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part 2, v. 92, p. 554-608. Saleeby, J.B., Goodin, S.E., Sharp, W.D., and Busby, C.J., 1978, Early Mesozoic paleotectonic-paleogeographic reconstruction of the southern Sierra Nevada region, in Howell, D.G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 311-336. Schermer, E.R., and Busby, Cathy, 1994, Jurassic magmatism in the central Mojave Desert: implications for arc paleogeography and preservation of continental volcanic sequences: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 767-790. Stone, Paul, and Pelka, G.J., 1989, Geologic map of the Palen-McCoy Wilderness Study Area and vicinity, Riverside County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2092, scale 1:62,500. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/mf2092 Tosdal, R.M., Haxel, G.B., and Wright, J.E., 1989, Jurassic geology of the Sonoran Desert region, southern Arizona, southeastern California, and northernmost Sonora: construction of a continental-margin magmatic arc, in Jenney, J.P., and Reynolds, S.J., eds., Geologic evolution of Arizona: Arizona Geological Society Digest 17, p. 397-434. Schweickert, R.A., 1981, Tectonic evolution of the Sierra Nevada Range, in Ernst, W.G., ed., The geotectonic development of California (Rubey Volume 1): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, p. 87-131. Saleeby, J.B., 1981, Ocean floor accretion and volcanoplutonic arc evolution of the Mesozoic Sierra Nevada, in Ernst, W.G., ed., The geotectonic development of California (Rubey Volume 1): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, p. 132-181. Burchfiel, B.C., and Davis, G.A., 1981, Mojave Desert and environs, in Ernst, W.G., ed., The geotectonic development of California (Rubey Volume 1): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, p. 217-252. Schweickert, R.A., 1978, Triassic and Jurassic paleogeography of the Sierra Nevada and adjacent regions, California and western Nevada, in Howell, D.G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 361-384. Saleeby, J.B., and Busby, Cathy, 1993, Paleogeographic and tectonic setting of axial and western metamorphic framework rocks of the southern Sierra Nevada, California, in Dunne, G.C., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States-II: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Book 71, p. 197-226. Wadsworth, W.B., Ferriz, H., and Rhodes, D.D., 1995, Structural and stratigraphic development of the Middle Jurassic magmatic arc in the Cowhole Mountains, central-eastern Mojave Desert, California, in Miller, D.M., and Busby, C., eds., Jurassic magmatism and tectonics of the North American Cordillera: Geological Society of America Special Paper 299, p. 327-349. Busby, C.J., Schermer, E.R., and Mattinson, J.M., 2002, Extensional arc setting and ages of Middle Jurassic eolianites, Cowhole Mountains (eastern Mojave Desert block, California), in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., eds., Geologic evolution of the Mojave Desert and southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir 195, p. 79-91. Saleeby, J.B., Kistler, R.W., Longiaru, S., Moore, J.G., and Nokleberg, W.J., 1990, Middle Cretaceous silicic metavolcanic rocks in the Kings Canyon area, central Sierra Nevada, California, in Anderson, J.L., ed., The nature and origin of Cordilleran magmatism: Geological Society of America Memoir 174, p. 251-270.
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Counties	Fresno - Inyo - Madera - Mariposa - Mono - Riverside - San Bernardino - Tulare - Tuolumne

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.

Matthews, R.A., and Burnett, J.L., 1966, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Fresno sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Jennings, C.W., 1961, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Kingman sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Strand, R.G., 1967, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Mariposa sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Bishop, C.C., 1964, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Needles sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Rogers, T.H., 1969, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, San Bernardino 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.

Koenig, J.B., 1963, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Walker Lake sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Bortugno, E.J., and Spittler, T.E., 1986, Geologic map of the San Bernardino quadrangle, California: California Division of Mines and Geology, Regional Geologic Map Series, Map 3A, scale 1:250,000.

Stewart, J.H., Carlson, J.E., and Johannsen, D.C., 1982, Geologic map of the Walker Lake 1ø x 2ø quadrangle, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1382-A, scale 1:250,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/mf1382A

Bateman, P.C., 1992, Pre-Tertiary geologic map of the Mariposa 1ø by 2ø quadrangle, Sierra Nevada, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1960, scale 1:250,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i1960

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.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr90497

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.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr91435

Huber, N.K., Bateman, P.C., and Wahrhaftig, Clyde, 1989, Geologic map of Yosemite National Park and vicinity, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1874, scale 1:125,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i1874

Moore, J.G., and Sisson, T.W., 1987, Preliminary geologic map of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-651, 17 p., scale 1:125,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr87651

Dibblee, T.W., Jr., 1967, Areal geology of the western Mojave Desert, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 522, 153 p., scale 1:125,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp522

Dunne, G.C., Garvey, T.P., Oborne, Mark, Schneidereit, Daniel, Fritsche, A.E., and Walker, J.D., 1998, Geology of the Inyo Mountains Volcanic Complex: implications for Jurassic paleogeography of the Sierra magmatic arc in eastern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1376-1397.

Dunne, G.C., Gulliver, R.M., and Sylvester, A.G., 1978, Mesozoic evolution of rocks of the White, Inyo, Argus, and Slate Ranges, eastern California, in Howell, D.G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 189-207.

Dunne, G.C., and Walker, J.D., 1993, Age of Jurassic volcanism and tectonism, southern Owens Valley region, east-central California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 1223-1230.

Fackler-Adams, B.N., Busby, C.J., and Mattinson, J.M., 1997, Jurassic magmatism and sedimentation in the Palen Mountains, southeastern California: implications for regional tectonic controls on the Mesozoic continental arc: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 109, p. 1464-1484.

Fiske, R.S., and Tobisch, O.T., 1978, Paleogeographic significance of volcanic rocks of the Ritter Range pendant, central Sierra Nevada, California, in Howell, D.G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 209-221.

Fleck, R.J., Mattinson, J.M., Busby, C.J., Carr, M.D., Davis, G.A., and Burchfiel, B.C., 1994, Isotopic complexities and the age of the Delfonte volcanic rocks, eastern Mescal Range, southeastern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 1242-1253.

Hanson, R.B., Saleeby, J.B., and Fates, D.G., 1987, Age and tectonic setting of Mesozoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks, northern White Mountains, California: Geology, v. 15, p. 1074-1078.

Karish, C.R., Miller, E.L., and Sutter, J.F., 1987, Mesozoic tectonic and magmatic history of the central Mojave Desert, in Dickinson, W.R., and Klute, M.A., eds., Mesozoic rocks of southern Arizona and adjacent areas: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 18, p. 15-32.

Miller, E.L., 1981, Geology of the Victorville region, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part 2, v. 92, p. 554-608.

Saleeby, J.B., Goodin, S.E., Sharp, W.D., and Busby, C.J., 1978, Early Mesozoic paleotectonic-paleogeographic reconstruction of the southern Sierra Nevada region, in Howell, D.G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 311-336.

Schermer, E.R., and Busby, Cathy, 1994, Jurassic magmatism in the central Mojave Desert: implications for arc paleogeography and preservation of continental volcanic sequences: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 767-790.

Stone, Paul, and Pelka, G.J., 1989, Geologic map of the Palen-McCoy Wilderness Study Area and vicinity, Riverside County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2092, scale 1:62,500.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/mf2092

Tosdal, R.M., Haxel, G.B., and Wright, J.E., 1989, Jurassic geology of the Sonoran Desert region, southern Arizona, southeastern California, and northernmost Sonora: construction of a continental-margin magmatic arc, in Jenney, J.P., and Reynolds, S.J., eds., Geologic evolution of Arizona: Arizona Geological Society Digest 17, p. 397-434.

Schweickert, R.A., 1981, Tectonic evolution of the Sierra Nevada Range, in Ernst, W.G., ed., The geotectonic development of California (Rubey Volume 1): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, p. 87-131.

Saleeby, J.B., 1981, Ocean floor accretion and volcanoplutonic arc evolution of the Mesozoic Sierra Nevada, in Ernst, W.G., ed., The geotectonic development of California (Rubey Volume 1): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, p. 132-181.

Burchfiel, B.C., and Davis, G.A., 1981, Mojave Desert and environs, in Ernst, W.G., ed., The geotectonic development of California (Rubey Volume 1): Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, p. 217-252.

Schweickert, R.A., 1978, Triassic and Jurassic paleogeography of the Sierra Nevada and adjacent regions, California and western Nevada, in Howell, D.G., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 361-384.

Saleeby, J.B., and Busby, Cathy, 1993, Paleogeographic and tectonic setting of axial and western metamorphic framework rocks of the southern Sierra Nevada, California, in Dunne, G.C., and McDougall, K.A., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States-II: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Book 71, p. 197-226.

Wadsworth, W.B., Ferriz, H., and Rhodes, D.D., 1995, Structural and stratigraphic development of the Middle Jurassic magmatic arc in the Cowhole Mountains, central-eastern Mojave Desert, California, in Miller, D.M., and Busby, C., eds., Jurassic magmatism and tectonics of the North American Cordillera: Geological Society of America Special Paper 299, p. 327-349.

Busby, C.J., Schermer, E.R., and Mattinson, J.M., 2002, Extensional arc setting and ages of Middle Jurassic eolianites, Cowhole Mountains (eastern Mojave Desert block, California), in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., eds., Geologic evolution of the Mojave Desert and southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir 195, p. 79-91.

Saleeby, J.B., Kistler, R.W., Longiaru, S., Moore, J.G., and Nokleberg, W.J., 1990, Middle Cretaceous silicic metavolcanic rocks in the Kings Canyon area, central Sierra Nevada, California, in Anderson, J.L., ed., The nature and origin of Cordilleran magmatism: Geological Society of America Memoir 174, p. 251-270.