Cenozoic strike-slip faults in the northern Wassuk Range, Walker Lane
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· Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States)
OSTI ID:5420751
- Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States). Geosciences Dept.
The N. Wassuk Ra. yields estimates of right-lateral Cenozoic strain in a portion of the northwest-trending Walker Lane, which has a total estimated right-lateral strain of 48--60 km (Ekren et al., 1984). The net right-lateral strain is < 10 km within an east-west 50 km-long segment extending from the N. Wassuk Ra. west to the Pine Nut Mts on the basis of continuous Jurassic plutonic units: Yerington batholith and quartz monzodiorite porphyry dikes. One of two dikes in the N. Wassuk Ra. may correlate easterly to Gillis Ra., suggesting [approximately]10 or 25 km right-lateral offset (Diles and R. Hardyman, unpub). In the N. Wassuk Ra. there are several ages of northwesterly striking faults. The oldest are [approximately]N45[degree]W striking, steeply dipping faults including the White Mt. and Wassuk Spur faults that step left to the northwest. Associated moderately dipping faults have tilted Oligocene tuffs to the W or SW to the SW of the fault zone, and both E and W on the NW; based on offset of the Jurassic porphyry dike and slickensides, these faults were dominantly oblique-slip normal faults with WNW-ESE slip. No lateral offsets can be directly measured across the steeply dipping faults; however, they juxtapose different Mesozoic metamorphic rocks and different thicknesses of Oligocene ignimbrites, suggesting significant lateral offset. Bingler's (1978) proposal that the White Mt. fault had left-laterally offset the White Mt. granite (WMG) from granite of Black Mountain (BMG) is unreasonable because the BMG intrudes the Wassuk Range diorite and contain biotite aplites, whereas the WMG intrudes metavolcanic rocks and contains tourmaline-muscovite aplites.
- OSTI ID:
- 5420751
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9305259--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States) Journal Volume: 25:5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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