Field Excursions from the 2021 GSA Section Meetings
The 2021 GSA Northeastern, Southeastern, joint North-Central/South-Central, and Cordilleran Section Meet-ings were held virtually in spring 2021 during continued restrictions on travel and large gatherings due to COVID-19. Eleven groups put together field guides, taking participants on treks to states from Connecticut to Nevada in the United States, to Mexico, and to Italy, and covering topics as varied as bedrock geologic map-ping, geochemistry, paleodrainage, barrier islands, karst, spring systems, a southern Appalachian transect, Ordo-vician and Mississippian stratigraphy, high-energy events, Cretaceous arc granites and dextral shear zones, and Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks. This volume serves as a valuable resource for those wishing to discover, learn more about, and travel through these geologically fascinating areas.
The blast, the quake, and the bomb: A guide to high-energy events in western Nevada, USA
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Published:September 24, 2021
ABSTRACT
This guide presents an eight-hour, in-person tour of intersecting geologic and human history in western Nevada, USA. A 25 megaton phreatomagmatic blast created a mile-wide (1.6-km-wide) maar, now filled by Soda Lake. The magnitude 7 Dixie Valley earthquake ripped along more than 45 km of the Stillwater Range front in 1954. The 12 kiloton Shoal nuclear test in 1963 created a 50-m-wide cavity in solid granite.
- Cenozoic
- Dixie Valley
- Dixie Valley earthquake 1954
- earthquakes
- explosions
- fault scarps
- field trips
- granites
- human activity
- igneous rocks
- Lake Lahontan
- maars
- Nevada
- nuclear explosions
- Pleistocene
- plutonic rocks
- Quaternary
- road log
- United States
- volcanism
- western Nevada
- Soda Lake
- Stillwater Range
- Project Shoal nuclear test site