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Quaternary slip rates on the White Mountains fault zone, eastern California: Implications for comparing geologic to geodetic slip rates across the Walker Lane
Timing and rates of Holocene normal faulting along the Black Mountains fault zone, Death Valley, USA
Temporal variations in extension rate on the Lone Mountain fault and strain distribution in the eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane
Rates of extension along the Fish Lake Valley fault and transtensional deformation in the Eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane belt
Spatial and temporal variations in denudation of the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, USA
Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone
Abstract The eastern California shear zone is an important component of the Pacific–North America plate boundary. This region of active, predominantly strike-slip, deformation east of the San Andreas fault extends from the southern Mojave Desert along the east side of the Sierra Nevada and into western Nevada. The eastern California shear zone is thought to accommodate nearly a quarter of relative plate motion between the Pacific and North America plates. Recent studies in the region, utilizing innovative methods ranging from cosmogenic nuclide geochronology, airborne laser swath mapping, and ground penetrating radar to geologic mapping, geochemistry, and U-Pb, 40 Ar/ 39 Ar, and (U-Th)/He geochronology, are helping elucidate slip rate and displacement histories for many of the major structures that comprise the eastern California shear zone. This field trip includes twelve stops along the Lenwood, Garlock, Owens Valley, and Fish Lake Valley faults, which are some of the primary focus areas for new research. Trip participants will explore a rich record of the spatial and temporal evolution of the eastern California shear zone from 83 Ma to the late Holocene through observations of offset alluvial deposits, lava flows, key stratigraphic markers, and igneous intrusions, all of which are deformed as a result of recurring seismic activity. Discussion will focus on the constancy (or non-constancy) of strain accumulation and release, the function of the Garlock fault in accommodating deformation in the region, total cumulative displacement and timing of offset on faults, the various techniques used to determine fault displacements and slip rates, and the role of the eastern California shear zone as a nascent segment of the Pacific–North America plate boundary.
Knickpoint evolution in a vertically bedded substrate, upstream-dipping terraces, and Atlantic slope bedrock channels
Mountain fronts, base-level fall, and landscape evolution: Insights from the southern Rocky Mountains
Mountain ranges in the southern Rocky Mountains, first uplifted during the early Cenozoic Laramide orogeny, have followed separate landscape evolutionary pathways in the late Cenozoic. We present a model that reconstructs the post-Laramide tectonic and geomorphic history of Sierra Nacimiento and the Taos Range, two nearly adjacent rift-flank ranges in north-central New Mexico that serve to illustrate the various processes shaping landscapes across the southern Rocky Mountains. The Sierra Nacimiento landscape reflects the exhumation of hard Precambrian rocks from beneath a softer Phanerozoic sedimentary cover. The exhumation is continuous, but not steady, being driven by distal base-level fall. Downstream diverging river terraces in the Jemez River valley on the eastern flank of Sierra Nacimiento and late Pliocene to Holocene fluvial deposits on the western Sierra Nacimiento piedmont document the base-level fall. The timing and contemporary rates of incision from these river systems suggest that exhumation is being propagated from south to north as knickzones work their way headward from the Rio Grande. In contrast, the Taos Range landscape reflects alternating active stream incision and aggradation astride, and throttled by, an active range-front normal fault. The distinction between the exhumation-dominated and tectonic-dominated mountain front is best quantified by analyses of first-order stream gradients and a watershed metric we call the drainage basin volume to drainage basin area ratio ( R va ). Gradients of first-order streams in the exhumation-dominated Sierra Nacimiento have a mode of 6.8 degrees, significantly less than the 17.7 degrees obtained from a comparable data set of Taos Range first-order streams. The distinct stream gradient and R va populations hint at an important change in the processes shaping hillslopes and low-order channels, which is supported by the lack of slope-clearing landslides in the Sierra Nacimiento landscape and the presence of such landslides in the Taos Range. Analogue and numeric models find that steep, rugged, faceted topography associated with tectonically active mountain fronts like the Taos Range can only be produced and maintained by creep and landslides where the sediment flux scales as a power law with respect to average hillslope or low-order channel gradient. Here, the fingerprint of active tectonics is recorded by both high R va values and steep modal channel gradients. By comparison, the Sierra Nacimiento landscape is shaped primarily by creep where the sediment flux has a linear relationship to average hillslope and low-order channel gradient. In this situation, the signatures of distal base-level fall are low R va values and relatively gentle modal channel gradients.