... the southern Sierra seismic gap should lie along the east side of the Sierra Nevada. The pattern of M 7.0 earthquakes along a north-northeastward trend through the western Basin and Range makes a large earthquake near the southern Sierra THE DURRWOOD MEADOWS SWARM, TULARE COUNTY, CA 459 Nevada plausible...

.... The rheology of the Great Valley crust is found to control rock uplift patterns across the Sierra Nevada, and tectonic subsidence in the Tulare Basin of the Great Valley. The Tulare Basin is uniquely situated over the region where the principal residual arclogite root remains attached to batholithic crust...

...Figure 5. Transverse structure sections across the eastern Tulare Basin and the Kern arch. Locations of sections are given in inset, along with Figure 8 longitudinal structure sections, and Figure 12 western Sierra Foothills topographic profile and eastern Great Valley lithospheric structure...

... lake size has depended chiefly on the height of a frequently overtopped spillway. This dependence gives Tulare Lake a double record of paleoclimate. Climate in the Tulare Lake region has influenced the degree to which the lake fills its basin during dry seasons and dry years: during the past 100,000...

... relations with the Sierran basement, topographic profiles, and Eastern Sierra fault system (ESFS) geometry. Listric normal faults of the system, rooted beneath the Sierra Nevada, are dynamically linked to the high-seismic-velocity mantle anomaly concentrated beneath Tulare Basin ( Le Pourhiet et al., 2006...