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Abstract Rocks in the major roof pendants of the eastern Sierra Nevada have been mapped in various degrees of detail to better understand their stratigraphy, internal structure, and geologic history, and their relationships to other rock assemblages in the region. Ten formations ranging in age from Middle(?) Cambrian to Middle(?) Permian are recognized in these pendants, which along with other minor pendants, constitute a tectonostratigraphic unit called the Morrison block . Rocks of the Morrison block were first deformed by north-northwest-trending thrust faults and footwall syn-clines involving strata as young as Early or Middle Permian. We designate this event, which correlates with a similar pre-middle Early Triassic event recognized in rocks near Tinemaha Reservoir, the Morrison orogeny. Structures produced during this orogeny include a probable cryptic thrust fault separating rocks assigned to the Morrison block from those in the Big Pine Creek pendant, which may belong to the White-Inyo block, and the Nevahbe thrust, which separates lower from upper Paleozoic rocks in the eastern part of the Mount Morrison pendant and may separate the Pine Creek and Bishop Creek pendants. In the Mount Morrison pendant structures produced during the Morrison orogeny apparently were later refolded twice prior to sinistral displacement on the Laurel-Convict fault, which cross-cuts older structures and is intruded by a pre-latest Late Triassic dike . Other thrust faults in the eastern Sierra Nevada include the Golconda thrust of early Middle Triassic age and the Lundy Canyon thrust of Late Triassic age. The Golconda thrust system apparently overprints the Roberts Mountains thrust and separates rocks of the Morrison block from those of the Golconda and Roberts Mountains allochthons in the Saddlebag Lake pendant, and perhaps from those of the Roberts Mountains allochthon in the Northern Ritter Range and Log Cabin Mine pendants . After thrust-faulting, but prior to intrusion of the Late Triassic Wheeler Crest Granodiorite, dextral movement on the Tinemaha fault displaced Paleozoic facies and structural belts in the Sierra Nevada northward, producing most of the present complicated paleogeographic patterns apparent in the region. Other less important structures, such as the Laurel-Convict fault, have further complicated the geology of the Morrison block .

Abstract The Bennettville area of the Saddlebag Lake pendant(Fig. 1) straddles the boundary of the Tuolumne Meadows andMono Craters quadrangles. Bennettville is located in the SE 1/4, NW 1/4, Sec.19, T.lN., R.25E. Park vehicles on California 120 atthe road junction to Saddlebag Lake, 9.6 mi (19 km) west of LeeVining and 2.4 mi (4 km) east of Tioga Pass. Bennettville isreached by walking west through the campground to a welldefined fisherman´s trail that begins at the far western edge of thecampground on the north side of Mine Creek. The trail roughlyparallels Mine Creek to Bennettville, an abandoned gold miningcamp, where two buildings remain in arrested decay.

Abstract The Bennettville area of the Saddlebag Lake pendant(Fig. 1) straddles the boundary of the Tuolumne Meadows andMono Craters quadrangles. Bennettville is located in the SE 1/4, NW 1/4, Sec.19, T.lN., R.25E. Park vehicles on California 120 atthe road junction to Saddlebag Lake, 9.6 mi (19 km) west of LeeVining and 2.4 mi (4 km) east of Tioga Pass. Bennettville isreached by walking west through the campground to a welldefined fisherman´s trail that begins at the far western edge of thecampground on the north side of Mine Creek. The trail roughlyparallels Mine Creek to Bennettville, an abandoned gold miningcamp, where two buildings remain in arrested decay.