Application of rock varnish dating of quaternary surficial deposits in determining times of fault movement

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5870454

Harrington, C D

Rock varnish, a coating commonly found on rock surfaces in arid and semiarid regions, has a significant potential in paleoseismic studies, as a wide variety of Quaternary surfaces and surficial deposits can be dated with the rock varnish technique. If the formation of geomorphic surfaces or surficial deposits can be related to times of faulting or if faulting has broken or deformed such features, then rock varnish dating can be used to constrain maximum and minimum times of motion on the related fault.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5870454
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-87-2865; CONF-8704210-1; ON: DE87014753
• Resource Relation: Conference: Paleoseismology workshop, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 22 Apr 1987; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

58 GEOSCIENCES
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
AGE ESTIMATION
GEOLOGIC FAULTS
ARID LANDS
COATINGS
IRON OXIDES
MANGANESE OXIDES
QUATERNARY PERIOD
ROCKS
CENOZOIC ERA
CHALCOGENIDES
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGIC FRACTURES
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES
IRON COMPOUNDS
MANGANESE COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
580100* - Geology & Hydrology- (-1989)