Death Valley
Selected Bibliography

This is not an exhaustive list of resources. For more information, conduct a search of GeoRef.
Note: This resource was originally created in support of NDSU Spring Fieldtrip 2000, Geol. 495. Modified for UIUC Geology 511 in 2005. [Locations are for NDSU, unless otherwise indicated (UIUC)]

Index

Background Resources

Web Links

From the USGS:

The Geology of Death Valley National Park - USGS - Great Web Site!!

The California Geotour - USGS links to online fieldtrip guides
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0051 - Guidebook for the 2001 Pacific Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip
Selected references for the Geology of Death Valley National Park and surrounding region
List of State Geologic Maps - Not the maps, just a list
Geologic Framework of the Central Death Valley Region
Death Valley Geology References

From the National Park Service:

Geology Fieldnotes - Death Valley
Death Valley National Park - National Park Service
Death Valley Geology - National Park Service
Death Valley Map - National Park Service

From NASA:

Great Basin - NASA
Death Valley - NASA
Images of Death Valley - NASA (link dead as of 6/13/2006)

From NDSU:

Relief Maps and 3D Analglyphs, Death Valley and Owens Valley

Other:

http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.death-valley.all.html

Field Guides

American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section, 1989, A guidebook to the Algodones Dune Field.

Anonymous, 1970, Geologic guide to the Death Valley area, California, 1970: Geological Society of Sacramento Annual Field Trip Guidebook.

Anonymous, 1975, A Field Guide to Cenozoic deformation along the Sierra Nevada Province and Basin and Range Province boundary: California Geology, v. 28, n. 5.

Bierman, P.R., Gillespie, A., Whipple, K.X., and Clark, D., 1991, Quaternary geomorphology and geochronology of Owens Valley, California; Geological Society of America field trip, in Walawender, M.J., and Hanan, B.B., Geological excursions in Southern California and Mexico, p.199-223.

Brady, R.H., III, 1991, Geology at the intersection of the Garlock and Death Valley fault zones, northern Avawatz Mountains: California Geology, v.44, n.10, p.222-231.

California Division of Mines and Geology, 1958, Death Valley: Sacramento, CA, Mineral Information Service, The Division of Mines and Geology, v.11, n.10, p.1-9.

CalTech, no date, GPS Postdoc Field Trip [Death Valley]: Caltech,
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/news/features/postdoc2002/index.html [Accessed 1/18/05]

Christie-Blick, N., 2004 update, Geological Excursion to Death Valley, California: Columbia University,
http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/v1010/ [Accessed 1/18/05]

Cooper, J.D., Troxel, B.W., Wright, L.A., eds., 1982, Geology of selected areas in the San Bernardino Mountains, western Mojave Desert, and southern Great Basin, California: Shohone, CA, Death Valley Publ., 202 p.

Cooper, J.D., ed., 1989, Cavalcade of carbonates; Field Trip Guidebook 61: Los Angeles, CA, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.

Cooper, J.D., and Stevens, C.H., eds., 1991, Paleozoic paleogeography of the Western United States II; Field Trip Guidebook n.67: Los Angeles, CA, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p.253-269.

Duff, K.L., and Ford, T.D., 1984, Field meetings to the western USA 1981 & 1982: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, n. 95, pt.2, p.97-148.

Earth and Space Science Student Organization, 1978 (revised 1980), Death Valley: Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles.

Earth and Space Science Student Organization, 1980 (rev.), Death Valley: University of California, Los Angeles.

Federal Writers' Project, 1939, California. Death Valley: a guide: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 75 p.

Friends of the Pleistocene, Pacific Cell, 1986, Quaternary tectonics of southern Death Valley, California.

Gaines, D., 1981, Mono Lake guidebook: Lee Vining, CA, Kutsavi Books, 113 p.

Garside, L.J., and Bonham, H.F. Jr., 1988, Volcanology and mineral deposits; Field trip guide, September, 1988: Reno, NV, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno (Division of Continuing Education).

Gasch, J.W., and Matthews, R.A., eds., 1970, Geologic guide to the Death Valley area, California; Annual Field Trip Guidebook of the Geological Society of Sacramento: Sacramento, CA, Dept. of Geology, California State University, 86 p.

Gath, E.M., Gregory, J.L., Sheehan, J.R., Baldwin, E.J., and Hardy, J.K., eds., 1987, Geology and mineral wealth of the Owens Valley region, California; Annual Field Trip Guidebook 15, Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geological Society.

Geological Society of America, 1974, Guidebook; Death Valley Region, California and Nevada [Prepared for the 70th Annual Mtg. of Geol. Soc. Am., Cordilleran Sect., Field Trip No. 1, held March 29-31, 1974 at Las Vegas, Nevada]: Death Valley Publising Co., 97 p.

Geological Society of America, 1986, Tertiary extensional features, Death Valley region, eastern California, in Centennial Field Guide: Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America. California Desert V.1

Gregory, J.L., and Baldwin, E.J., eds., 1988, Geology of the Death Valley region; Annual field trip guidebook 16: Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geol. Soc., 429 p. [QE90.D35G46]

Hill, M.L., 1987, Centennial Field Guide Volume 1: Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America. [QE77.C46 V.1] See numbers 27 & 28 (Tertiary extensional features, Death Valley region, eastern California), 30 (Searles Valley, California: Outcrop evidence of a Pleistocene lake and its fluctuations, limnology, and climatic significance), 31 (Red Cinder Mountain and Fossil Falls, California), 32 (Owens Lake, an ionic soap opera staged on a natric playa), 33 (Late Quaternary fault scarp at Lone Pine, California; Location of oblique slip during the great 1872 earthquake and earlier earthquakes), 34 (Papoose Flat pluton, Inyo Mountains, California), and 35 (Big Pumice cut, California: A well-dated, 750,000-year-old glacial till); Also a few in the Reno area.

Kula, J.L., no date, Geologic Evolution of Western North America Field Trip: University of Nevada, http://complabs.nevada.edu/~jkula/Geowna.html (accessed 1/19/05)

Machette, M.N., Johnson, M.L., and Slate, J.L., eds., 2001, Quaternary and late Pliocene geology of the Death Valley region: Recent observations on tectonics, stratigraphy, and lake cycles (Pacific Cell - Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip February 17-19, 2001): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-51, 246 p. [Available online: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0051/, accessed 1/18/05]

Miller, D.M., Menges, C.M., and McMackin, M., 2005, Geomorphology and tectonics at the intersection of Silurian and Death Valleys: 2005 Guidebook, Pacific Cell, Friends of the Pleistocene, various pagination. [UIUC Geology Library]

National Association of Geology Teachers, 1983, Death Valley region field guide.

National Park Service, 2002 update, Geology field notes; Death Valley National Park:National Park Service
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/parks/deva/index.htm [Accessed 1/18/05]

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1975, Guidebook: Las Vegas to Death Valley and return: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report No. 26.

Norris, R.M., 1985, A geologic guide to Titus Canyon, Death Valley National Monument, Inyo County: California Geology, v.39, n.9, p.195-202.

Purkey, B.W., Duebendorfer, E.M., Smith, E.I., Price, J.G., and Castor, S.B., 1994, Geologic tours in the Las Vegas area. Special Publication of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology: Reno, NV, University of Nevada, 156 p. [QE138 .L34 G46 1994]

Putman, J., and Smith, G., eds., 1995, Deepest Valley; Guide to Owens Valley; Its roadsides and mountain trails, 2nd ed.: Mammoth Lakes, CA, Genny Smith Books, 280 p. [F868.09 D43 1995]

Sharp, R.P., 1994, A field guide to Southern California, 3rd ed.: Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall/Hunt Publishing co., 301 p. [UIUC Geology 557 C12SH1994] [NDSU 1976 edition QE90 .S65 S5 1976] (Excellent source; good roadlog)

Shedenhelm, W.R.C., 1982, Field trip; Lowest and highest: Rock & Gem, v.12, n.8, p.68-72.

Shelton, J.S., Crowell, J.C., and Davis, G.A., 1979, Guidebook for roundtrip flight to Colorado Plateau: San Diego, CA, San Diego State Univ., Dep. Geol., 96 p.

Simila, G.W., and Roquemore, G.R., 1987, Earthquake history of the Owens Valley region, in Gath, E.M., Gregory, J.L., Sheehan, J.R., Baldwin, E.J., and Hardy, J.K., eds., Geology and mineral wealth of the Owens Valley region, California; Annual Field Trip Guidebook 15, Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geological Society, p.145-156.

Smith, G.I., 1978, Field guide to examples of late Quaternary geology, Searles Valley, California: Menlo Park, CA, Friends Pleistocene Pac. Coast Sect., 31 p.

Smith, G.I., Benson, L.V., Currey, D.R., leaders, 1989, Glacial geology and geomorphology of North America; Volume 1, Quaternary geology of the Great Basin, in the collection, Hanshaw, P.M., ed., Field trips for the 28th international geological congress: Washington, DC, American Geophysical Union, 78 p.

Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, 1951, Road log. Death Valley to San Fernando.

Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 1967, Do-it-yourself road log, Los Angeles to Death Valley; Guidebook for Annual Field Trip; 1967 Post-convention field trips: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.

South Coast Geological Society, 1988, Geology of the Death Valley region: South Coast Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook 16.

Spadaccini, J., 1998 update, Death Valley National Park; Geology in a land of extremes: Exploratoriums "What's New in the World, n. 22, http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/news/january98.html [Accessed 1/18/05]

Steller, D.L., ed., 1983, Death Valley region field guide: Cypress, CA, Natl. Assoc. Geol. Teachers, Far West Sect, Cypress College, 125 p.

Troxel, B.W., 1970, Geologic guide to the Death Valley area, California. Annual Field Trip Guidebook of the Geological Society of Sacramento: Sacramento, CA, Dept. of Geology, California State University, 73 p. plus 11 page appendix [UIUC Geology 557 C12G]

Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., ed., 1976, Geologic features; Death Valley, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Report no.106, 72 p. [TN24 .C2 A33 no.106]

Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., 1987, Tertiary extensional features, Death Valley region, eastern California, in Hill, M.L., ed., Cordilleran section of the Geological Society of America, in the collection Centennial field guide 6: Boulder, CO, Geol. Soc. Amer., p.121-132. [QE77 .C46]

USGS, 2004 update, Death Valley National Park Virtual Geology Field Trip: U.S. Geological Survey, http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/parks/deva/devaft.html (accessed 6/13/2006)

USGS, 2003 update, America's Volcanic Past - Death Valley, Death Valley National Park: U.S. Geological Survey, http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Places/volcanic_past_death_valley.html [Accessed 1/18/05]

Walawender, M.J., and Hanan, B.B., eds., 1991, Geological excursions in southern California and Mexico; Guidebook, 1991 Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, San Diego, California, October 21-24, 1991: San Diego, CA, Dept. of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, 515 p. [UIUC Geology 557.949 G2923]

Weiss, S.I., Noble, D.C., Worthington, J.E. IV, McKee, E.H., 1993, Neogene tectonism from the southwestern Nevada volcanic field to the White Mountains, California; Part I, Miocene volcanic stratigraphy, paleotopography, extensional faulting and uplift between northern Death Valley and Pahute Mesa, in Lahren, M.M., Trexler, J.H. Jr., and Spinosa C., eds., Crustal evolution of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada: Reno, NV, University of Nevada, p.353-369.

Wernicke, B.P., Walker, J.D., and Hodges, K.V., 1988, Detachment surfaces in the southern Great Basin; Field guide to the northern part of the Tucki Mountain fault system, Death Valley region, California, in Weide, D.L., and Faber, M.L., eds., This extended land; geological journeys in the southern Basin and Range: Las Vegas, NV, Univ. Nev., Dept. Geosci., p.58-63.

Wills, C.J., 1989, A neotectonic tour of the Death Valley fault zone: California Geology, v.42

Woodburne, M.O., 1971, Vertebrate paleontology of the northern Mojave desert, southern California; field trip guide from Death Valley to Riverside, California, in Geological excursions in southern California: Campus Museum Contributions, n.1; Riverside, CA, University of California, Riverside.

Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., 1954, Western Mojave Desert and Death Valley region, in Jahns, R.H., ed., Geol. Guide no. 1; Geology of southern California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin No. 170.

General Geology

Applegate, J.D.R., Walker, J.D., and Hodges, K.V., 1992, Late Cretaceous extensional unroofing in the Funeral Mountains metamorphic core complex, California: Geology, v. 20, n. 6, p.515-522. [RLH] [550.5 G294]

Baldridge, W.S., 2004, Geology of the American Southwest; A journey through two billion years of plate-tectonic history: Cambridge University Press, 280 p.

Blakely, R.J., and Ponce, D.A.,, 2001, Map showing depth to Pre-Cenozoic basement in the Death Valley groundwater model area, Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey, MF-2381-E, (greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mf-maps/mf-2381/). One color sheet; scale 1:250,000.

Burchfiel, B.C., Lipman, P.W., and Zoback, M.L., 1986, The Cordilleran Orogen: conterminous U.S.: Geological Society of America DNAG, vol. G-3. [QE71.G48 1986 Vol. G-3], see especially the article by Wernicke, B: Cenozoic extensional tectonics in the U.S. Cordillera, p.553-581.

Calzia, J., and Ramo, O.T., 2005, Miocene rapakivi granites in the southern Death Valley region, California, USA: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, n.1-4, p. 221-243. [UIUC 550.5 EAR; UIUC Online]

Calzia, J.P., ed., 2006, Fifty years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, 348 p. [UIUC 557.9487F466] Description

Calzia, J.P., 2006, Bibliography, L.A. Wright and B.W. Troxel, 1944 – present, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 31-45. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Clark, W.D., 1972, Death Valley; the story behind the scenery, Las Vegas, NV, KC Publications, 32 p. (FOLIO QE90.D36 C53)

Dohrenwend, J.C., Abrahams, A.D., and Turrin, B.D., 1987, Drainage development on basaltic lava flows, Cima volcanic field, southeast California, and Lunar Crater volcanic field, south-central Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 99, P.405-413.

Dohrenwend, J.C., Abrahams, A.D., and Turrin, B.D., 1989, Drainage development on basaltic lava flows, Cima volcanic field, southeast California, and Lunar Crater volcanic field, south-central Nevada; Reply: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 982-986. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Drewes, H., 1963, Geology of the Funeral Peak Quadrangle, California, on the east flank of Death Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 413, 78 p. [RLH] [I19.16:413]

Eardley, A.J., 1962, Structural geology of North America, 2nd ed.; ch.31, Middle and late Cenozoic systems of the central Cordillera: New York, NY, Harper and Row, p.493-514. [QE71.E17 1962]

Eaton, G.P., 1979, Regional geophysics, Cenozoic tectonics, and geologic resources of the Basin and Range Province and adjoining regions, in Newman, G.W., and Goode, H.D., eds., 1979 Basin and Range Symposium: Denver, CO, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p.11-39.

Ernst, W.G., ed., 1988, Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the Western United States: Rubey Volume 7.

Ernst. W.G. and C.A. Nelson, eds., 1998, Integrated earth and environmental evolution of the southwestern United States; the Clarence A. Hall, Jr. volume: Columbia, MD, Bellwether Publ. Co., [QE627.5.S85]

Fleck, R.J., 1970, Age and tectonic significance of volcanic rocks, Death Valley area, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81, p.2807-2816. [RLH][550.5 G29]

Geological Society of America, 1974, Guidebook: Death Valley Region, California and Nevada: Shoshone, CA, Death Valley Publishing Co., 98 p. [RLH*]

Gordon, I., and Heller, P.L., 1992, Evaluating major controls on basinal stratigraphy, Pine Valley, Nevada: Implications for syntectonic deposition: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, n. 1, p. 47-55. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Gregory, J.L., and Baldwin, E.J., eds., 1988, Geology of the Death Valley region: Santa Ana, CA: South Coast Geological Society, 429 p. [NDSU QE90.D35 G46 1988] [UIUC Geology 557.9487 G292]

Harden, J.W., and Matti, J.C., 1989, Holocene and late Pleistocene slip rates on the San Andreas fault in Yucaipa, California, using displaced alluvial-fan deposits and soil chronology: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p.1107-1117. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Heaman, L.M., and Grotzinger, J.P., 1992, 1.08 Ga diabase sills in the Pahrump Group, California: Implications for development of the Cordilleran miogeosyncline: Geology, v. 20, n. 7, p.637-640. [RLH] [550.5 G294]

Hunt, C.G., and Mabey, D.R., 1966, Stratigraphy and structure, Death Valley, California: U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 494A, 162p. [RLH] [I19.16:494A]

Hunt, C.B., 1966, Plant ecology of Death Valley, California: U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 509. [RLH] [I19.16:509]

Hunt, C.B., and others, 1966, Hydrologic Basin, Death Valley, CA: U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 494-B, p.40-104. [RLH] [I19.16:494B]

Hunt, C.B., 1975, Death Valley: geology, ecology, archaeology: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 234 p. [QE90.D35 H86]

Hunt, C.B., 1979, The Great Basin, an overview and hypothesis of its history, in Newman, G.W., and Goode, H.D., eds., 1979 Basin and Range Symposium: Denver, CO, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p.1-9.

Ingersoll, R.V., 1998, Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of central California and environs, in Ernst, W.G., and Neson, C.A., eds., Integrated Earth and environmental evolution of the Southwestern United States; The Clarence A. Hall, Jr. volume: Columbia, MD, Bellwether Publishing, p.349-364. [QE627.5 .S85 I57 1998]

Jahns, R. H., ed., 1954, Geology of southern California: California Dept. Nat. Res., Dev. Mines Bull. 170.

McAllister, J.F., 1970, Geology of the Furnace Creed Borate area, Death Valley, Inyo County, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Map Sheet 14. Includes separate report.

McDowell, S.D., 1974, Emplacement of the Little Chief Stock, Panamint Range, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 85, p.1535-1546. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

McPhee, J., 1981, Basin and Range: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 216 p. [QE79 .M28 1981]

McPhee, J., 1993, Assembling California: New York, The Noonday Press, 304 p. [QE89 .M37 1993]

Melton, M.A., 1989, Drainage development on basaltic lava flows, Cima volcanic field, southeast California, and Lunar Crater volcanic field, south-central Nevada; Alternative interpretation: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p.595-599. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Miller, M.B., 2005, Geological landscapes of the Death Valley region: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, n.1-4, p. 17-30 [UIUC 550.5 EAR; UIUC online]

Miller, M.G., 1985, Glacial and syntectonic sedimentation: The upper Proterozoic Kinston Peak Formation, southern Panamint Range, eastern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, n.12, p.1537-53. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Miller, M.G., 1991, High-angle origin of the currently low-angle Badwater Turtleback fault, Death Valley, California: Geology, v. 19, n. 4, p.372-35. [RLH] [550.5 G294]

Miller, M.G., 1992, Brittle faulting induced by ductile deformation of a rheologically stratified rock sequence, Badwater Turtleback, Death Valley, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, n. 10, p.1376-1385. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Miller, M.G., and Friedman, R.M., 1999, Early Tertiary magmatism and probable Mesozoic fabrics in the Black Mountains, Death Valley, California: Geology, v. 27, n. 1, p. 19-22. [UIUC Available online]

Morgan, S.S., and Law, R.D., 1998, An overview of Paleozoic-Mesozoic structures developed in the central White-Inyo Range, eastern California, in Ernst, W.G., and Nelson, C.A., eds. Integrated earth and environmental evolution of the southwestern United States: Columbia, MD, Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. [for the Geological Society of America], The Clarence A. Hall, Jr. Volume, p.161-174. [QE627.5 .S85 I57 1998]

Nakata, J.K., 1976, Origin of Mojave Desert dust plumes photographed from Space: Geology, v. 4, n. 11, p.644. [RLH] [550.5 G294]

National Park Service, 1984, Death Valley: Washington, DC, GPO. Brochure with map. [See "Park Map Shaded Relief"] Link dead as of 6/13/2006

Nelson, C.A., Browne, D.G., and Strathearn, G.E., 1980, Death Valley. ESSO Guidebook. 8: Los Angeles, CA, University of California, Department of Earth and Space Sciences.

Norris, R.M. and Webb, R.W., 1990, Geology of California, 2nd ed.: New York, John Wiley & Sons, 541 p. [SR] [QE89.N67 1990]

Noble, L.F., 1938, Structural features of Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 49, n. 12, pt.2, p.1894-95. [550.5 G29]

Oakeshott, G.B., 1978, California's changing landscape: New York, McGraw-Hill. [QE89 .O2 1978]

Oldow, J.S., Bally, H.G.A.L., and Leeman, W.P., 1989, Phanerozoic evolution of the North American Cordillera; United States and Canada, in The geology of North America, vol. A, The Geology of North America-An overview: Geological Society of America DNAG, p.139-232.[QE71.G48 1986, vol.A] See also other pages in this volume: p.493, 505, etc.

Ponce, D.A., and Blakely, R.J.,, 2001, Aeromagnetic isostatic gravity map of the Death Valley groundwater model area, Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey, MF-2381-C, (greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mf-maps/mf-2381/). One color sheet; scale 1:250,000.

Ponce, D.A., Blakely, R.J., Morin, R.L., and Mankinen, E.A., 2001, Isostatic gravity map of the Death Valley groundwater model area, Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey, MF-2381-D, (greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mf-maps/mf-2381/). One color sheet; scale 1:250,000.

Prave, A.R., and Wright, L. A., 1986, Isopach pattern of the Lower Cambrian Zabriske Quartzite, Death Valley region, California Nevada: How useful is tectonic reconstruction?: Geology, v. 14, p.251-254. [RLH] [550.5 G294]

Prave, A.R., 1992, Depositional sequence stratigraphic framework of the Lower Cambrian Zabriske Quartzite: Implications for regional correlations and the Early Cambrian paleogeography of the Death Valley region of California and Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, n. 5, p.505-515. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Putman, J., and Smith, G., eds., 1995, Deepest valley; Guide to Owens Valley; Its roadsides and mountain trails, 2nd ed.: Mammoth Lakes, CA, Genny Smith Books, 280 p. [F868.09 D43 1995]

Schaber, G.G., Berlin, G.L., and Brown, W.E., Jr., 1976, Variations in surface roughness within Death Valley, California: Geologic evaluation of 25 cm wavelength radar images: Geol. Soc. of Amer. Bull., v. 87, n. 1, p.29-41. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Sharp, R.P., and Glazner, A.F., 1997, Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley: Missoula, MT, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 319 p. [QE90.D35 S47 1997]

Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., and Belasky, P., 1991, Paleogeographic and structural significance of an Upper Mississippian facies boundary in southern Nevada and east-central California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, n. 7, p.876-885. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Stevens, C.H., Stone, P., Dunne, G.C., Greene, D.C., Walker, J.D., and Swanson, B.J., 1998, Paleozoic and Mesozoic evolution of east-central California, in Ernst, W.G., and Nelson, C.A., eds. Integrated earth and environmental evolution of the southwestern United States: Columbia, MD, Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. [for the Geological Society of America], The Clarence A. Hall, Jr. Volume, p.119-160. [QE627.5 .S85 I57 1998]

Stewart, J.H. and Poole, F.G., 1975, Extension of the Cordilleran Miogeosynclinal Belt to the San Andreas Fault, Southern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 86, n. 2, p.205-212. [RLH] [550.5 G29]

Sweetkind, D.S., Dickerson, R.P., Blakely, R.J., and Denning, P.D., 2001, Interpretive geologic cross sections for the Death Valley regional flow system and surrounding areas, Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey, MF-2370 (greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mf-maps/mf-2370/). Three color sheets; 35 pages of text.

Troxel, B.W., ed., 1986, Quaternary tectonics of southern Death Valley, California; field trip guide: Shoshone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., 44 p.

Troxel, B.W., 1974, Guidebook; Death Valley Region, California and Nevada: Death Valley Publ. Co., 97 p. (Prepared for GSA Cordilleran Section 70th Annual Meeting, March 29-31, 1974, Las Vegas, NV)

Troxel, B.W., 2006, My geological career in Death Valley, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 13-16. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., 1976, Geologic features; Death Valley, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Report 106, 72 p. (Revised papers selected from a Guidebook on the Death Valley Region, California and Nevada, published in 1974)

Wernicke, B., and Snow, J.K., 1998, Cenozoic tectonism in the Central Basin and Range; Motion of the Sierran-Great Valley block, in Ernst, W.G., and Nelson, C.A., eds. Integrated earth and environmental evolution of the southwestern United States: Columbia, MD, Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. [for the Geological Society of America], The Clarence A. Hall, Jr. Volume, p.111-118. [QE627.5 .S85 I57 1998]

Wright, L.A., 1982, The geology of Death Valley: Earth Science, v. 35, n. 2, p. 11-15. [Microfiche 550.5 Ea76]

Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., 1999, Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, 381 p. [QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999]

Wright, L.A., 2006, Acknowledgements of a professional lifetime, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 3-11. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Geologic History

Bagg, R.M., 1945, Death Valley [California] a desert wonderland: Natural History, v. 54, n. 4, p. 168-179. [570.5 N21]

Butler, P.R., 1980, Quaternary history of the lower Amargosa River, southern Death Valley, California; a preliminary investigation, in Fife, D.L. and Brown, A.R., eds., Geology and mineral wealth of the California desert: Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geol. Soc., p. 447-448.

Butler, P.R., 1982, Quaternary history of selected sites in the lower Amargosa River basin, southern Death Valley, California, in Cooper, J.D., Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., eds., Geology of selected areas in the San Bernardino Mountains, western Mojave Desert, and southern Great Basin, California: Shohone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., p.49-52.

Butler, P.R., 1984, Geology, structural history, and fluvial geomorphology of the southern Death Valley fault zone, Inyo and San Bernardino counties, California: Doctoral dissertation. Davis, CA, University of California, Davis, 122 p.

Butler, P.R., Troxel, B.W., and Verosub, K.L., 1988, Late Cenozoic history and styles of deformation along the southern Death Valley fault zone, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, n. 3, p. 402-410. [550.5 G29]

California Department of Natural Resources Division of Mines, 1958, Death Valley: Mineral Information Service, v. 11, n. 10, p. 1-9.

Calzia, J.P., and Ramo, O.T., 2006, Miocene rapakivi granites in the southern Death Valley region, California, USA, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 220-243. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Clapham, M. E., and Corsetti, F.A., 2005, Deep valley incision in the terminal neoproterozoic (Ediacaran) Johnnie Formation, eastern California, USA; Tectonically or glacially driven?: Precambrian Research v. 141, n. 3-4, p. 154-164. [UIUC Available online]

Clements, T.D., 1954, Geological story of Death Valley: San Bernardino, CA, Death Valley '49ers, 62 p.

Corsetti, F. A., and Grotzinger, J.P., 2005, Origin and significance of tube structures in neoproterozoic post-glacial cap carbonates; example from Noonday Dolomite, Death Valley, United States: Palaios, v. 20, n. 4, p. 348-362 [UIUC Available online]

Corsetti, F.A., and Hagadorn, J.W., 2000, Precambrian-Cambrian transition; Death Valley, United States: Geology, v.28, n.4, p.299-302.[550.5 G294]

Corsetti, F.A., and Kaufman, A.J., 2006, The relationship between the Neoproterozoic Noonday Dolomite and the Ibex Formation: New observations and their bearing on ?snowball Earth?, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 63-78. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Corsetti, F.A., Olcott, A.N., and Bakermans, C., 2006, The biotic response to neoproterozoic snowball earth; exploring life and environments through time; celebrating the 40th anniversary of Paleo-3: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 232, n. 2-4, p. 114-130. [UIUC Available online]

Hardy, J.K., 1988, Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Death Valley region: a brief introduction, in Gregory, J.L. and Baldwin, E.J., Geology of the Death Valley Region: Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geological Society, p.63-74. [QE90 .D35 G46 1988]

Horton, T.W., and Chamberlain, C.P., 2006, Stable isotopic evidence for neogene surface downdrop in the central basin and range province: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, n. 3-4, p. 475-490. [UIUC Available online]

Jayko, A.S., 2005, Late Quaternary denudation, Death and Panamint Valleys, eastern California: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, n.1-4, p. [UIUC 550.5 EAR; UIUC Online]

Jayko, A.S., 2006, Late Quaternary denudation, Death and Panamint Valleys, eastern California, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 271-289. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Kennedy, E., 1982, Death Valley: Oregon Rockhound Bulletin, v. 34, n. 1, p. 15-18.

Labotka, T.C., and Albee, A.L., 1988, Metamorphism and tectonics of the Death Valley region, California and Nevada, in Ernst, W.G., ed., Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the Western United States: Rubey Volume 7, p. 715-736.

Maxson, J.H., 1963, Death Valley; origin and scenery: Biship, CA, Death Valley Nat. History Assoc., 59 p.

Miller, M.B., 2006, Geological landscapes of the Death Valley region, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 17-30. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Norris, R.M. and Webb, R.W., 1990, Geology of California, 2nd ed.: New York, John Wiley & Sons, p.51-61, 178-219. [SR] [QE89.N67 1990]

Putnam, G.P., 1946, Death Valley and its country: New York, NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 231 p.

Roth, G., 1992, Geologic history of a portion of the Antelope Valley basin of the Mojave Desert block as determined from drill cuttings: Pacific Petroleum Geologist Newsletter of the Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 2-3, p. 8-10.

Serpa, L., Pavlis, T.L., 1996, Three-dimensional model of the Cenozoic history of the Death Valley region, southeastern California: Tectonics, v. 15, n. 6, p. 1113-1128.

Shields, A.G., 2000, Precambrian-Cambrian transition: Death Valley, United States: Comment and Reply Comment: Geology, v.28, n.10, p.958.

Stewart, J.H., 2006, Eolian deposits in the Neoproterozoic Big Bear Group, San Bernardino Mountains, California, USA, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 47-62. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Stokes, W.L., 1979, Paleohydrographic history of the Great Basin region, in Newman, G.W., and Goode, H.D., eds., 1979 Basin and Range Symposium: Denver, CO, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p.345-351.

Stone, P., 1985, Stratigraphy, depositional history, and paleogeographic significance of Pennsylvanian and Permian rocks in the Owens Valley-Death Valley region, California (Volumes I and II). Doctoral dissertation: Stanford, CA, Stanford University, 470 p.

Walker, H., 1969, Death valley's geological yesteryears: Desert, v.32, n.11, p.12-15.

Wright, L.A., 1982, The geology of Death Valley: Earth Science, v. 35, n. 2, p. 11-15. [550.5 Ea76 Microfiche]

Wright, L.A, and Miller, M.G., 1997, Death Valley National Park, in Harris, A.G., Tuttle, E., and Tuttle, S.D., Geology of national parks: Dubuque, IA, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, p. 610-637. [NDSU has 1990 ed: QE77 .H36 1990]

Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., 1999, Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, 381 p. [QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999]

Stratigraphy

Note: Also check field guides.

Adams, R.W., Pluhar, C.J., and Kirshvink, J.L., 1990, Paleomagnetism and tephrochronology as aids in stratigraphic studies: Quarterly of San Bernardino County Museum Association, v. 37, n. 2, p. 21.

Albright, G.R., 1989, Depositional environments of Lower Mississippian Tin Mountain Limestone, Death Valley region, California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 73, n. 4, p. 532-533. [550.5 Am3 Microfiche]

Basse, R.A., 1978, Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and depositional setting of the late Precambrian Pahrump Group, Silurian Hills, California. Master's thesis: Stanford, CA, Stanford University, 79 p.

Bates, E.E., Jr., 1965, Stratigraphic analysis of the Cambrian Carrara Formation, Death Valley region, California-Nevada. Master's thesis: Los Angeles, CA, University of California.

Benmore, W.C., 1978, Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of the late Paleophytic or earliest Phanerozoic Johnnie Formation, eastern California and southwestern Nevada. Doctoral dissertation: Santa Barbara, CA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 263 p.

Beratan, K.K., and Murray, B.C., 1992, Stratigraphy and depositional environments, southern Confidence Hills, Death Valley, California: Quarterly of San Bernardino County Museum Association, v. 39, n. 2, p. 7-11.

Bradbury, D., 1984, Precambrian in California: Bulletin of the Southern California Paleontological Society, v. 16, n. 3-4, p. 33.

Brown, W.J., 1989, The Late Quaternary stratigraphy, paleohydrology, and geomorphology of fluvial Lake Mojave, Silver Lake and Soda Lake basins, Southern California. Master's thesis: Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico, 266 p.

Cameron, C.S., 1982, Stratigraphy and significance of the upper Precambrian Big Bear Group, in Cooper, J.D., Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., eds., Geology of selected areas in the San Bernardino Mountains, western Mojave Desert, and southern Great Basin, California: Shohone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., p. 5-20.

Cemen, I., Drake, R., and Wright, L.A., 1982, Stratigraphy and chronology of the Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic units at the southeastern end of the Funeral Mountains, Death Valley region, California, in Cooper, J.D., Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., eds., Geology of selected areas in the San Bernardino Mountains, western Mojave Desert, and southern Great Basin, California: Shohone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., p. 77-88.

Cemen, I., 1983, Stratigraphy, geochronology and structure of the selected areas of the northern Death Valley region, eastern California-western Nevada, and implications concerning Cenozoic tectonics of the region. Doctoral dissertation: University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University, 321 p.

Cemen, I., and Wright, L.A., 1988, Stratigraphy and chronology of the Artist Drive Formation, Furnace Creek basin, Death Valley, California, in Gregory, J.L., and Baldwin, E.J., eds., Geology of the Death Valley region: Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geol. Soc., p. 77-87. [QE90 .D35 G46 1988]

Clements, T., 1973, Geological story of Death Valley: San Bernardino, CA, Death Valley '49ers, 62 p.

Cooper, J.D., and Miller, R.H., 1976, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of lower part of Nopah Formation (upper Cambrian), southern Great Basin: AAPG Bulletin, v.60, n.4, p. 659. [550.5 Am3]

Cooper, J.D., Miller, R.H., and Sundberg, F.A., 1982, Environmental stratigraphy of the lower part of the Nopah Formation (Upper Cambrian), southwestern Great Basin, in Cooper, J.D., Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., eds., Geology of selected areas in the San Bernardino Mountains, western Mojave Desert, and southern Great Basin, California: Shohone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., p. 97-116.

Corsetti, F.A., and Kaufman, A.J., 2005, The relationship between the Neoproterozoic Noonday Dolomite and the Ibex Formation: New observations and their bearing on ‘snowball Earth’: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, n.1-4, p. [UIUC 550.5 EAR; Online]

Diehl, P.E., 1974, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Wood Canyon Formation, Death Valley Area, California, in Guidebook; Death Valley Region, California and Nevada: Shoshone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., p. 37-48.

Diehl, P.E., 1979, The stratigraphy, depositional environments, and quantitative petrography of the Precambrian-Cambrian Wood Canyon Formation, Death Valley. Doctoral dissertation: University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. University Park, PA, 430 p.

Geol. Soc. of America Cordilleran Section, 1974, Guidebook; Death Valley Region, California and Nevada: Shoshone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., 97 p.

Hardy, J.K., 1988, Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Death Valley region; a brief introduction, in Gregory, J.L., and Baldwin, E.J., eds., Geology of the Death Valley region: Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geol. Soc., p. 63-76. [QE90 .D35 G46 1988]

Heironimus, T.L., 1982, Biostratigraphy, depositional environments, and paleogeography of Lower and Middle Devonian rocks, Death Valley area, California. Master's thesis: Corvallis, OR, Oregon State Univsersity, 167 p.

Hildreth, W., 1976, Death Valley geology; rocks and faults, fans and salts: Death Valley Nat. Hist. Assoc., 72 p.

Hunt, C.B., and Mabey, D.R., 1966, General geology of Death Valley, California; stratigraphy and structure: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 494A, 165 p.. [I19.16:494A]

Jensen, S., Grant, S.W.F., Kaufman, A.J., and Corsetti, F.A., 1996, Chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic-Cambrian units, White-Inyo region, eastern California and western Nevada; implications for global correlation and faunal distribution; discussion and reply: Palaios, v. 11, n. 1, p. 83-89.

Knott, J.R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Machette, M.N., and Klinger, R.E., 2005, Upper Neogene stratigraphy and tectonics of Death Valley - A review: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, n.1-4, p. 245-270. [UIUC 550.5 EAR; UIUC Online]

Knott, J.R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Machette, M.N., and Klinger, R.E., 2006, Upper Neogene stratigraphy and tectonics of Death Valley – A review, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 245-270. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Langenheim, R.L., Jr., and Tischler, H., 1959, Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Tin Mountain limestone and Perdido Formation, Quartz Spring area, Death Valley National Monument, Inyo County, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.70, n.12, pt.2, p.1635. [550.5 G29]

Laudon, J.H., 1989, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Rest Spring Shale, Inyo Mountains-Death Valley region, California. Master's thesis: Lawrence, KS, University of Kansas, 85 p.

Luckow, H.G., Pavlis, T.L., Serpa, L.F., Guest, B., Wagner, D.L., Snee, L., Hensley, T.M., and Korjenkov, A., 2006, Late Cenozoic sedimentation and volcanism during transtensional deformation in Wingate Wash and the Owlshead Mountains, Death Valley, in Calzia, J.P., ed., Fifty Years of Death Valley Research: New York, Elsevier, p. 177-219. (Reprinted from Earth Science Reviews, v. 73, n. 1-4) [UIUC Geology 557.9487F466]

Martin, M.W., and Walker, J.D., 1991, Paleozoic cratonal/ miogeoclinal stratigraphy in the western Mojave Desert: AAPG Bulletin, v. 75, n. 2, p. 373. [550.5 Am3]

Maud, R.L., 1983, Stratigraphy, petrography and depositional environments of the carbonate-terrigenous member of the Crystal Spring Formation, Death Valley, California. Doctoral dissertation: University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University, 240 p.

Miller, J.M.G., Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., 1988, Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Proterozoic Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley region, eastern California, in Gregory, J.L., and Baldwin, E.J., eds., Geology of the Death Valley region: Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geol. Soc., p.118-142. [QE90 .D35 G46 1988]

Miller, R.H., and Paden, E.A., 1976, Upper Cambrian stratigraphy and conodonts from eastern California: Journal of Paleontology, v.50, n.4, p.590-597. [560.5 J82]

Miller, R.H., 1982, Ordovician and Silurian stratigraphy and depositional environments, Nopah Range, southwestern Great Basin, in Cooper, J.D., Troxel, B.W., and Wright, L.A., eds., Geology of selected areas in the San Bernardino Mountains, western Mojave Desert, and southern Great Basin, California: Shohone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., p. 117-128.

Mount, J.F., and Berg, K.J., 1998, Depositional sequence stratigraphy of Lower Cambrian grand cycles, southern Great Basin, U.S.A., in Ernst, W.G., and Nelson, C.A., eds. Integrated earth and environmental evolution of the southwestern United States: Columbia, MD, Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. [for the Geological Society of America], The Clarence A. Hall, Jr. Volume, p.180-202. [QE627.5 .S85 I57 1998]

Nelson, C.A., 1978, Late Precambrian-Early Cambrian stratigraphic and faunal succession of eastern California and the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary: Geological Magazine, v.115, n.2, p.121-126.

Noble, L.F., 1934, Rock formations of Death Valley, California: Science, v.80, n.2069, p.173-178. [505 Sci2]

Palmer, A.R., 1981, Lower and Middle Cambrian stratigraphy from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Bishop, California in Taylor, M.E., and Palmer, A.R., eds., Cambrian stratigraphy and paleontology of the Great Basin and vicinity, Western United States: Denver, CO, U.S. Geological Survey, p.14-24.

Palmer, A.R., and Rowland, S.M., 1989, Day 1; Early Cambrian stratigraphy and paleontology, southern Great Basin, California-Nevada, in Taylor, M.E., Sedimentation and stratigraphy of carbonate rock sequences; Volume 1, Cambrian and Early Ordovician stratigraphy and paleontology of the Basin and Range Province, Western United States, in the collection, Hanshaw, P.M., ed., Field trips for the 28th international geological congress.

Prave, A.R., 1984, Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and petrography of the Lower Cambrian Zabriskie Quartzite in the Death Valley region, southeastern California and southwestern Nevada. Master's thesis: University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University, 193 p.

Prave, A.R., 1988, Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian Zabriskie Quartzite in the Death Valley region, CA and NV, in Gregory, J.L., and Baldwin, E.J., eds., Geology of the Death Valley region: Santa Ana, CA, South Coast Geol. Soc., p. 88-101. [QE90 .D35 G46 1988]

Prave, A.R., Fedo, C.M., and Cooper, J.D., 1991, Lower Cambrian depositional and sequence stratigraphic framework of the Death Valley and eastern Mojave Desert regions, in Walawender, M.J, and Hanan, B.B., eds., Geological excursions in Southern California and Mexico, San Diego, CA, San Diego State Univ., p. 147-170.

Reynolds, M.W., 1969, Stratigraphy and structural geology of Titus and Titanothere canyons area, Death Valley (Inyo county), California. Doctoral dissertation: Berkeley, CA, University of California, Berkeley, 310 p.

Roberts, M.T., 1974, The stratigraphy and depositional environments of the lower part of the Crystal Spring Formation, Death Valley, California. Doctoral dissertation: University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University, 368 p.

Roberts, M.T., 1974, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Crystal Spring Formation, Southern Death Valley region, California, in Guidebook; Death Valley Region, California and Nevada: Shoshone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., p.49-57.

Savoca, M.E., 1989, Stratigraphy, depositional environments and structure of the Tertiary units in the northern part of the Furnace Creek basin, Death Valley, California. Master's thesis: Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma State University, 82 p.

Scott, R.K., 1985, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of a Neogene playa-lake system, China Ranch Beds, near Death Valley, California. Master's thesis: University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University, 249 p.

Snow, J.K., and Wernicke, B.P., 1989, Uniqueness of geological correlations; an example from the Death Valley extended terrain: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, n. 11, p. 1351-1362. [550.5 G29]

Stewart, J.H., Silberling, N.J., and Harwood, D.S., 1997, Triassic and Jurassic stratigraphy and paleogeography of west-central Nevada and eastern California with a correlation diagram of Triassic and Jurassic rocks: USGS Open-File Report 97-495. [I19.76: 97-495 Microfiche Document]

Stokes, W.L., 1979, Stratigraphy of the Great Basin region, in Newman, G.W., and Goode, H.D., eds., 1979 Basin and Range Symposium: Denver, CO, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p.195-219.

Stone, P., 1985, Stratigraphy, depositional history, and paleogeographic significance of Pennsylvanian and Permian rocks in the Owens Valley-Death Valley region, California (Volumes I and II). Doctoral dissertation: Stanford, CA, Stanford University, 470 p.

Suek, D.H., and Knaup, W.W., 1979, Paleozoic carbonate buildups in the Basin and Range Province, in Newman, G.W., and Goode, H.D., eds., 1979 Basin and Range Symposium: Denver, CO, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p.245-257.

Tischler, H., 1955, Devonian and Mississippian stratigraphy of the Rest Spring area, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.66, n.12, pt.2, p.1665-1666. [550.5 G29]

Troxel, B.W., 1967, Sedimentary rocks of late Precambrian and Cambrian age in the southern Salt Spring Hills, southeastern Death Valley, California, in Short contributions to California geology, Special Report of the California Division of Mines and Geology: Sacramento, CA, California Division of Mines and Geology, p.33-41.

Wright, L.A., 1949, Crystal Spring Formation, southern Death Valley area, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.60, n.12, pt.2, p.1948. [550.5 G29]

Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., 1966, Strata of late Precambrian-Cambrian age, Death Valley region, California-Nevada: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v.50, n.5, p.846-857. [550.5 Am3]

Wright, L.A., Troxel, B.W., Williams, E.G., Roberts, M.T., and Diehl, P.E., 1974, Precambrian sedimentary environments of the Death Valley region, eastern California, in Guidebook; Death Valley Region, California and Nevada: Shoshone, CA, Death Valley Publ. Co., p. 27-36.

Wright, L.A., 1982, The geology of Death Valley: Earth Science, v. 35, n. 2, p. 11-15. [550.5 Ea76 Microfiche]

Wright, L.A., Troxel, B.W., and Zigler, J.L., 1989, Geologic sections to accompany geologic map of the central and northern Funeral Mountains and adjacent areas, Death Valley region, Southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF 89-0647. [I19.76:89-647]

Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., 1999, Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, 381 p. [QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999]

Structural Geology and Tectonics

Regional Tectonic Setting

Anderson, T.H., and Silver, L.T., 2005, The mojave-sonora megashear; field and analytical studies leading to the conception and evolution of the hypothesis; the mojave-sonora megashear hypothesis; development, assessment, and alternatives: Geological Society of America Special Paper 393, p.1-50. [UIUC Available online]

Asmerom, Y., Snow, J.K., Holm, D.K., Jacobsen, S.B., Wernicke, B.P., and Lux, D.R., 1990, Rapid uplift and crustal growth in extensional environments: An isotopic study from the Death Valley Region, California: Geology, v. 18, n. 3, p.223-226. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Atwater, T., 1970, Implications of plate tectonics for the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of western North America: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81, p.3513-3536. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Axen, G.J., Taylor, W.J., and Bartley, J.M., 1992, Space-time patterns and tectonic controls of Tertiary extension and magmatism in the Great Basin of the western United States: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, n. 1, p. 56-76. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Bartley, J.M., and Galzner, A.F., 1991, En echelon Miocene rifting in the southwestern United States and models for vertical axis rotation in continental extension: Geology, v. 19, n.12 , p.1165-1168. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Bird, P., and Rosenstock, R.W., 1984, Kinematics of present crust and mantle flow in southern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 95, n. 8, p.946-957. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Brocher, T.M., Carr, M.D., Fox, K.F., Jr., and Hart, P.E., 1992, Seismic reflection profiling across Tertiary extensional structures in the eastern Amargosa Desert, southern Nevada, Basin and Range Province: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, n. 1, p. 30-46. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Burchfiel, B.C., and Stewart, J.H., 1966, "Pull-apart" origin of the central segment of Death Valley: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 77, p.439-442. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Campagna, D.J., and Aydin, A., 1991, Tertiary uplift and shortening in the Basin and Range: The Echo Hills, southeastern Nevada: Geology, v. 19, n. 5, p.485-488. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Castle, R.O., and Gilmore, T.D., 1992, A revised configuration of the southern California uplift: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, n. 12, p.1577-1591. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Catchings, R.D., 1992, A relation among geology, tectonics, and velocity structure, western to central Nevada Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, n. 9, p.1178-1192. [RLH][NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available Online]

Chase, C. F., and Wallace, T.C., 1986, Uplift of the Sierra Nevada of California: Geology, v. 14, p.730-733. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Geology 550.5 GE00]

Crouch, James K., 1979, Neogene tectonic evolution of the California continental borderland and western Transverse Ranges: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 90, n. 4, p.338-345. [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Daley, E.E., and DePaolo, D.J., 1992, Isotopic evidence for lithospheric thinning during extension: Southeastern Great Basin: Geology, v. 20, n. 2, p.104-109. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Davis, G.A., and Friedmann, S.J., 2005, Large-scale gravity sliding in the Miocene Shadow Valley Supradetachment Basin, Eastern Mojave Desert, California: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, n.1-4, p. 149-176. [UIUC 550.5 EAR; UIUC Online]

DeVoogel, B., Serpa, L., and Brown, L., 1988, Crustal extension and magmatic processes: COCORP profiles from Death Valley and the Rio Grande rift: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, n. 10, p.1550-67. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available Online]

Dokka, R.K., 1993, Original dip and subsequent modification of a cordilleran detachment fault, Mojave extensional belt, California: Geology, v. 21, n.8, p.711-14. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Duebendorfer, E.M., and Wallin, E.T., 1991, Basin development and syntectonic sedimentation associated with kinematically coupled strike-slip and detachment faulting, southern Nevada: Geology, v. 19, n. 1, p.87-90. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

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Longwell, C.R., 1974, Measure and date of movement on Las Vegas Valley shear zone, Clark County, Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 85, n. 6, p.985-990. [RLH] [550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

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Moores, E.M., 1990, Shaping the Earth: Tectonics of Continents and Oceans: New York, NY, W.H. Freeman and Company, p.135-136. [SR] [UIUC Geology 551 M788S]

Norris, R.M. and Webb, R.W., 1990, Geology of California, 2nd ed.: New York, John Wiley & Sons, 541 p. [SR] [NDSU QE89.N67 1990] [UIUC Geology 557 C12NO1990]

Pavlis, T.L., Serpa, L.F., and Keener, C., 1993, Role of seismogenic processes in fault-rock development: An example from Death Valley, California: Geology, v.21, n.3, p. 267-270. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Serpa, L., de Voogd, B., Wright, L., Willemin, J., Oliver, J., Hauser, E., and Troxel, B.W., 1988, Structure of the central Death Valley pull-apart basin and vicinity from COCORP profiles on the Southern Great Basin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, n. 9, p.1437-50. [RLH*] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Severinghaus, J. and Atwater, A., 1990, Cenozoic geometry and thermal state of the subducting slabs beneath western North America: Geologic Society of America Memoir 176. [SR] [UIUC Geology 550 G292M]

Smith, G.I., 1991, Anomalous folds associated with the east-central part of the Garlock Fault, southeast California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, n. 5, p.615-624. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Stevens, C.H., and Stone, P., 2005, Structure and regional significance of the Late Permian(?) Sierra Nevada–Death Valley thrust system, east-central California: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, n.1-4, p. 103-113. [UIUC 550.5 EAR; UIUC Online]

Stewart, J.H., 1971, Basin and range structure: A system of horsts and grabens produced by deepseated extension: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 82, n. 4, p.1019-1044. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Stewart, J.H., 1967, Possible large right-lateral displacement along fault and shear zones in the Death Valley-Las Vegas area, California and Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.78, p.131-142. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Stewart, J.H., and Albers, J.P., 1970, Summary of regional evidence for right-lateral displacement in the western Great Basin; Reply: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81, p.2175-2180. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Stewart, J.H., 1983, Extensional tectonics in the Death Valley area, California: Transport of the Panamint Range Structural block 80 km northwestward: Geology, v. 11, n. 3, p.153-157. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Thompson, G.A. and Burke, D.B., 1973, Rate and direction of spreading in Dixie Valley Basin and Range Province, Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 84, p.627-632. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Topping, D.J., 1993, Paleogeographic reconstruction of the Death Valley extended region: Evidence from Miocene large rock avalanche deposits in the Amargosa Chaos Basin, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, n.9, p.1190-1213. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Walker, J.D., and Wardlaw, B.R., 1989, Implications of Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks in the Soda Mountains, northeastern Mojave Desert, California, for late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Cordilleran orogenesis: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, n. 12, p.1574-1583. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Walker, J.D., Martin, M.W., Bartley, J.M., and Coleman, D.S., 1990, Timing and kinematics of deformation in the Cronese Hills, California, and implications for Mesozoic structure of the southwestern Cordillera: Geology, v. 18, n. 6, p.554-557. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Walker, J.D., and Coleman, D.S., 1991, Geochemical constraints on mode of extension in the Death Valley region: Geology, v. 19, n. 10, p.971-974. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Wernicke, B., Axen, G.J., Snow, J.K., 1988, Basin and range extensional tectonics at the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, n. 11, p.1738-1757. [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Corbett, K.P., Wernicke, B.P., Axen, G.J., and Snow, J.K., 1990, Basin and Range extensional tectonics at the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada; Discussion and reply: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, n. 2, p.267-270. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Wright, L.A., J.K. Otton, and Troxel, B.W., 1974, Turtleback surfaces of Death Valley viewed as phenomena of extensional tectonics: Geology, v. 2, n. 2, p.53-54. [RLH*] [NDSU 550.5 G294] [UIUC Available online]

Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., 1973, Shallow fault interpretation of Basin and Range structure, southwestern Great Basin, in Pejong, K.A. and Scholten, R., eds., Gravity and tectonics: New York, John Wiley & Sons, p.397-407. [RLH] [UIUC Geology 551.8 D369G]

Wright, L.A. and Troxel, B.W., 1970, Summary of regional evidence for right-lateral displacement in the western great basin: Discussion: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81, p.2167-2174. [RLH] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., 1999, Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, 381 p. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Zellmer, J.T., Roquemore, G.R., and Blackerby, B.A., 1985, Modern tectonic cracking near the Garlock fault, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, n. 8, p.1037-42. [RLH*] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Tectonic Evolution

Beratan, K.K., Hsieh, J., and Murray, B., 1999, Pliocene-Pleistocene stratigraphy and depositional environments, southern Confidence Hills, Death Valley, California, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.289-300. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Blair, T.C., and Raynolds, R.G., 1999, Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleotectonic implications of Neogene fan-delta and lacustrine deposits of the Hole in the Wall and Wall Front Members, Furnace Creek Basin, Death Valley, California, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.127-168. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Blakely, R.J., Jachens, R.C., Calzia, J.P., and Langenheim, V.E., 1999, Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley extended terrane as reflected in regional-scale gravity anomalies, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.1-16. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Bloom, A.L., 1998, Geomorphology: A systematic analysis of Late Cenozoic landforms, 3rd ed: Upper Saddle River, NJ, Hall, Prentice Hall, Inc., p.44-46. [SR] [NDSU GB401.5 .B55 1991, 2nd ed.] [UIUC Geology Q. 551.4 B62g1998]

Brady, R.H. III, and Troxel, B.W., 1999, The Miocene Military Canyon Formation: Depocenter evolution and contraints on lateral faulting, southern Death Valley, California, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.277-288. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Brogan, E., Kellogg, K.S., Slemmons, D.B., and Terhune, C.L., 1991, Late Quaternary faulting along the Death Valley-Furnace Creek fault system, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 23 p., maps. [NDSU I19.3:1991] [UIUC 557xb]

Burchfiel, B.C., and Stewart, J.J., 1966, Pull-apart origin of the central segment of Death Valley, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.77, p.439-442. [SR] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Cemen, I., Wright, L.A., and Prave, A.R., 1999, Stratigraphy and tectonic implications of the latest Oligocene and early Miocene sedimentary succession, southernmost Funeral Mountains, Death Valley region, California, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.65-86. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Cowan, D.S., Cladouhos, T.T., and Morgan, J.K., 2003, Structural geology and kinematic history of rocks formed along low-angle normal faults, Death Valley, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, n. 10, p. 1230-1248. [UIUC Available online]

Davis, G.A., 1979, Problems of intraplate extensional tectonics, western United States, with special emphasis on the Great Basin, in Newman, G.W., and Goode, H.D., eds., 1979, Basin and Range Symposium: Denver, CO, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p.41-54. [UIUC Geology 557.9 B292B]

Fleck, R.J., 1970, Age and tectonic significance of volcanic rocks, Death Valley area, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.81, p.2807-2816. [SR] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Fridrich, C.J., 1998, Tectonic evolution of the crater flat basin, Yucca Mountain Region, Nevada: USGS Open-File Report 98-33. [NDSU I19.76: 98-33 Gov. Doc. Microfiche] [UIUC Geology MF557xo]

Fridrich, C.J., Whitney, J.W., Hudson, M.R., and Crowe, B.M., 1999, Space-time patterns of late Cenozoic extension, vertical axis rotation, and volcanism in the Crater Flat basin, southwest Nevada, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.197-212. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Friedmann, S.J., 1999, Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Shadow Valley basin, eastern Mojave Desert, California, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.213-244. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Gregory, J.L., Baldwin, E.J, and Ruff, R.W., 1988, Death Valley field trip road log October 21-23, 1988, in Gregory, J.L., and Baldwin, E.J., eds., Geology of the Death Valley region: Annual fieldtrip guidebook #116, South Coast Geological Society, p.20-23. [SR] [UIUC Geology 557.9487 G292]

Hamilton, W.B., 1988, Death Valley tectonics--hingeline between active and inactivated parts of a rising and flattening master normal fault: Geology of the Death Valley Region, in Gregory, J.L., and Baldwin, E.J., eds., Geology of the Death Valley region: Annual fieldtrip guidebook #116, South Coast Geological Society, p.179-205. [SR] [UIUC Geology 557.9487 G292]

Holm, D.K., Geissman, J.W., and Weirnicke, B., 1993, Tilt and rotation of the footwall of a major normal fault system: paleomagnetism of the Black Mountains, Death Valley extended terrane, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.105, n. 10, p.1373-1387. [SR] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Available online]

Hooke, R. Le B., 1972, Geomorphic evidence for Late-Wisconsin and Holocene tectonic deformation, Death Valley, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83, n. ?, p.2073-2098. [RLH*] [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Knott, J.R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Machette, M.N., and Klinger, R.E., 2005, Upper Neogene stratigraphy and tectonics of Death Valley - A review: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, n.1-4, p. 245-270. [UIUC 550.5 EAR; UIUC Online]

Knott, J.R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Meyer, C.E., Tinsley, J.C. III, Wells, S.G., and Wan, E, 1999, Late Cenozoic stratigraphy and tephrochronology of the western Black Mountains piedmont, Death Valley, California: Implications for the tectonic development of Death Valley, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.345-366. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Miller, M.G., 1999, Implications of ductile stain on the Badwater turtleback for pre-14 Ma extension in the Death Valley region, California, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.115-126. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Miller, M.G., 1999, Gravitational reactivation of an extensional fault system, Badwater Turtleback, Death Valley, California, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.367-376. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Morrison, R.B., 1999, Lake Tecopa: Quaternary geology of Tecopa Valley, California, a multimillion-year record and its relevance to the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, in Wright, L.A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic basins of the Death Valley region: Geological Society of America Special Paper 333, p.301-344. [NDSU QE615.5 .U6 C46 1999] [UIUC Geology 550 G292s]

Noble, L.F., 1941, Structural features of the Virgin Spring area, Death Valley, CA: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.52, p.941-1000. [NDSU 550.5 G29] [UIUC Geology 550.6 GE]

Norris, R.M. and Webb, R.W., 1990, Geology of California, 2nd ed.: New York, John Wiley & Sons, p.?. [SR] [NDSU QE89.N67 1990] [UIUC Geology 557 C12NO1990]