Figure 4. Geologic map of the Snow Lake pendant (SLP) redrafted after Lahren and Schweickert (1989) and modified. White stars indicate locations of new samples collected for detrital zircon analyses. Please note that the Snow Lake cover sequence is herein interpreted to be Jurassic, marine

ML369); ML2—May Lake pendant (sample ML459); VVSMES—Upper Vinini–Valmy–Snow Canyon–McAfee-Elder-Slaven ( Smith and Gehrels, 1994 ; Gehrels et al., 2000a ; Memeti et al., 2010 ). El Paso terrane: KPB—Bald Mountain pendant; KPI—Indian Wells pendant; KPK—Kennedy pendant. Death Valley: WC1—Wood Canyon #1

Figure 1. Central and southern Sierra Nevada batholith with host rock pendants and approximate location of the Mojave–Snow Lake fault (MSLF), which is offset by the proto–Kern Canyon shear zone (modified after Greene and Schweickert, 1995 ; Bateman, 1992 ). Inset shows outline of Sierra Nevada

Figure 3. Normalized relative age–probability curves showing detrital zircon ages from Snow Lake pendant (this study), Mojave Desert miogeoclinal strata (Zabriskie Quartzite) (J. Stewart, 2000, personal commun.), Roberts Mountains allochthon ( Gehrels et al., 2000) , and Shoo Fly Complex ( Harding

., 2014 ). Mojave: WC2—Wood Canyon #2; Smd—Stirling; SL—Sierra Lopez; ZQ—Zabriskie Quartzite ( Gehrels and Stewart, 1998 ; Stewart et al., 2001 ; Barth et al., 2009 ; Memeti et al., 2010 ). Snow Lake terrane: BL1 and BL2—Benson Lake pendant samples BPM-314 and RE242; ML1 and ML2—May Lake pendant

Figure 2. Geologic map of the Tuolumne batholith with metasedimentary pendants of passive-margin affinity and Precambrian to Ordovician age on its west side; exceptions are the Cinko Lake pendant, the northeastern outcrop of the Snow Lake pendant (SLP), and the Strawberry Mine pendant, which

Figure 9. Metasedimentary rocks, structures, and fossils in the studied pendants. (A) Fine layered metasiltstone from the Cinko Lake pendant with bedding-parallel foliation and rootless, isoclinal folds at places. (B) Contact indicated by white arrows between the Snow Lake cover sequence (upper

of the El Paso terrane (EP); miogeoclinal strata of Death Valley and the Snow Lake terrane (DV + SL); the Fairview pendant of the Kernville terrane (KT); and Santa Lucia (“Seco”) and Gabilan (“Fremont”) ranges, showing the number of grains analyzed. Composite curves consist of (in parentheses): Shoo Fly

record Permian–Triassic dextral slip on the Tinemaha fault and/or Mesozoic dextral slip on intrabatholithic breaks (IBB2, IBB3). CD—Casa Diablo pendant, MMP—Mount Morrison pendant, RRP—Ritter Range pendant, SLP—Saddlebag Lake pendant, SnLP—Snow Lake pendant. Inset: Black rectangle shows location of map

Figure 1. Simplified geologic map of central California and eastern Nevada showing location of Sierra Nevada batholith, Snow Lake pendant, Shoo Fly Complex, Roberts Mountains allochthon, miogeocline strata (Death Valley facies), and Mojave Desert (map adapted from Lahren et al., 1990 )

Fig. 11. Geological sketch map of the Snow Lake and western Cinco Lake pendant ( Lahren et al. 1990 ; Wahrhaftig 2000 ; Memeti et al. 2010 ; Leopold 2016 ), showing ages of folded metavolcanic, metaplutonic, and metasedimentary rocks and their truncation by younger post-collisional plutonic

” and “Zabriskie” analyses from quartzites in the Snow Lake pendant are from Grasse et al. (2001) .

of detrital zircon from: (A) all Hornbrook Formation sandstone samples; (B) Hornbrook Formation quartzite cobbles collected from the Klamath River Conglomerate, Rocky Gulch Sandstone, and Barneburg Hill members; (C) the Snow Lake pendant in the central Sierra Nevada (data from Memeti et al., 2010 ; Grasse

Figure 11. Normalized age probability plots of zircon ages determined with laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) for metasedimentary rocks of the Strawberry Mine pendant ( Fig. 8 ), the Snow Lake cover sequence ( Fig. 4 ), and the Cinko Lake pendant ( Fig. 5