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Fault pattern at the northern end of the Death Valley - Furnace Creek fault zone, California and NevadaThe author has identified the following significant results. The pattern of faulting associated with the termination of the Death Valley-Furnace Creek Fault Zone in northern Fish Lake Valley, Nevada was studied in ERTS-1 MSS color composite imagery and color IR U-2 photography. Imagery analysis was supported by field reconnaissance and low altitude aerial photography. The northwest-trending right-lateral Death Valley-Furnace Creek Fault Zone changes northward to a complex pattern of discontinuous dip slip and strike slip faults. This fault pattern terminates to the north against an east-northeast trending zone herein called the Montgomery Fault Zone. No evidence for continuation of the Death Valley-Furnace Creek Fault Zone is recognized north of the Montgomery Fault Zone. Penecontemporaneous displacement in the Death Valley-Furnace Creek Fault Zone, the complex transitional zone, and the Montgomery Fault Zone suggests that the systems are genetically related. Mercury mineralization appears to have been localized along faults recognizable in ERTS-1 imagery within the transitional zone and the Montgomery Fault Zone.
Document ID
19740006900
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Liggett, M. A.
(Argus Exploration Co. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Childs, J. F.
(Argus Exploration Co. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 3, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1974
Subject Category
Geophysics
Report/Patent Number
NASA-CR-136387
E74-10205
Accession Number
74N15013
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS5-21809
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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