Research Catalog

Title

Basin and Range Symposium and Great Basin Field Conference / Gary W. Newman, Harry D. Goode, editors.

Author

Basin and Range Symposium, Las Vegas, Nev., 1979.

Publication

Denver : Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Newman, Gary W.
• Goode, H. D. (Harry Donald), 1912-
• Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
• Utah Geological Association
• Great Basin Field Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., 1979.
• Great Basin Field Conference (1979 : Las Vegas, Nev.)

Description

xii, 662 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.

Alternative Title

Basin and Range Symposium

Subjects

• Guidebooks
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Geology > Nevada > Guidebooks
• Geology > Great Basin > Congresses
• Great Basin > Congresses
• Geology > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Guidebooks
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and the Utah Geological Association.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Dedication to Thomas Brennan Nolan -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' comments -- Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists: 1979 Officers, Symposium Committee, and Symposium Publication Committee -- Utah Geological Association: 1979 Officers and Symposium Committee -- Great Basin Field conference schedule -- Memorial to Neal J. Harr -- Memorial to Edward RIchard Larson -- Historical notes / Veal, Faye J. -- Index to advertisers -- Symposium -- Tectonics -- The Great Basin, an overview and hypotheses of its origin / Hunt, Charles B. -- Regional geophysics, Cenozoic tectonics, and geologic resources of the Basin and Range Province and adjoining regions / Eaton, Gordon P. -- Problems of intraplate extensional tectonics, western United States, with special emphasis on the Great Basin / David, Gregory A. -- Ruby Orogeny -- a major early Paleozoic tectonic event / Willden, Ronald -- The Cordilleran miogeosyncline and Sevier orogeny in southern California / Tyler, David L. -- Structure -- Tectonics and sedimentation along the Antler orogenic belt of central Nevada / Wilson, B.R. and Wunderlich Laule, Susan -- Paleogeography and tectonic implications of the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian in Utah / Welsh, John E. -- Deformation of autochthonous foreland basement, Clark Mountain thrust complex, southeastern California / Nelson, Eric P. and Burchfiel, B.C. -- Revisions to the interpretation of structural style in the Muddy Mountain region, Nevada / Temple Jr., Vernon J. -- West-northwest strike-slip faults and other structures in allochthonous rocks in central and eastern Nevada and western Utah / Thorman, C.H. and Ketner, K.B. -- Apparent reverse movement on previous thrust faults along the eastern margin of the Basin and Range Province, north-central Utah / Sprinkel, Douglas A. -- Reinterpretation of the history of the Hurricane fault in Utah / Anderson, R. Ernest and Mehnert, Harald H. -- Late Cretaceous -- Eocene faulting in the east-central Basin and Range / Newman, Gary W. -- Geophysical evidence of fault termination of the Basin and Range Province in the vicinity of the Vale, Oregon, geothermal area / Lillie, Robert J. and Couch, Richard W. -- Character and extent of Basin-Range faulting, western Montana and east-central Idaho / Reynolds, Mitchell W.
• Paleozoic and Mesozoic stratigraphy -- Stratigraphy of the Great Basin region / Stokes, William Lee -- Precambrian and Paleozoic stratigraphy in central Ruby Mountains Elko County, Nevada / Willden, Ronald and Kistler, Ronald W. -- Paleozoic carbonate buildups in the Basin and Range Province / Suek, David H. and Knaup, William W. -- Crinoid shoals and associated environments, Mississippian of southern Nevada / Hansen, M.W. -- A Basin and Range chaos in the Oquirrh Mountains -- sedimentary or tectonic? / Schurer, Victoria C. -- Early Permian fusulinids from the Wildcats Peak Formation, central Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada / Verville, G.J. and Laule, S.W. -- Regional relations of middle Permian rocks in Idaho, Nevada, and Utah / Wardlaw, Bruce R., Collinson, James W. and Ketner, Keith B. -- Cenozoic stratigraphy -- Upper Miocene Hualapai Limestone Member from the proto-Gulf of California at Lake Mead, Arizona / Blair, Will N., Bradbury, J. Platt and Oscarson, Robert L. -- Preliminary correlation of Cretaceous and Paleogene lacustrine and related nonmarine sedimentary and volcanic rocks in parts of the eastern Great Basin of Nevada and Utah / Fouch, Thomas D., Hanley, John H. and Forester, R.M. -- Tertiary sediments in the Lake Mead area, Nevada / Brenner, Elizabeth F. and Glanzman, Richard K. -- Eocene and Oligocene lacustrine and volcanic rocks near Elko, Nevada / Solomon, Barry J., McKee, Edwin H. and Andersen, David W. -- Intrusive rocks of the Indian Peak range, Utah / Grant, S. Kerry -- Paleohydrography, hydrology, and geothermal resources -- Paleohydrographic history of the Great Basin / Stokes, William Lee -- Summary appraisal of the water resources in the Great Basin / Price, Don -- Geothermal energy in the Basin and Range Province / Grose, L.T. and Keller, G.V. -- Hot waters of western Utah / Goode, Harry D. -- An overview of geothermal exploration and development in Nevada / Hyde, Joy -- Mineral resources -- Stratabound lead-zinc-silver ores of the Pioche District -- unusual "Mississippi Valley" deposits / James, Laurence P. and Knight, Louis H. -- Beryllium and uranium mineralization in the Spor Mountain area, Juab County, Utah / David, Leland J. -- Uranium, thorium, and mercury distribution through the evolution of the McDermitt caldera complex / Rytuba, James J., Glanzman, Richard K. and Conrad, W.K. -- Geology of the Apex Uranium Mine near Austin, Nevada / Plut, Frederick W. -- Stratigraphic and tectonic setting of the lithium brine field, Clayton Valley, Nevada / Davis, J.R. and Vine, J.D. -- Zeolite deposits in the Basin and Range Province / Surdam, Ronald C. -- Cyanide leaching in eastern Nevada / Jensen, Mead L. and Qidwai, H.A. -- Petroleum -- Eagle Springs oil field, Nye County, Nevada / Bortz, Louis C. and Murray, D. Keith -- Geological techniques utilized in Trap Spring field discovery, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada / Dolly, Edward D. -- Trap Spring oil field, Nye County, Nevada / Duey, Herbert D. -- Geomorphic exploration used in the discovery of Trap Spring oil field, Nye County, Nevada / Foster, Norman H. -- Tertiary volcanic stratigraphy and reservoir characteristics of the Trap Spring field, Nye County, Nevada / French, Don E. and Freeman, Kevin J. -- Stratigraphy and regional implications of the Argonaut Energy No. 1 Federal, Millard County, Utah / Mitchell, Gary C. -- Results of exploratory drilling northern Fallon Basin, western Nevada / Hastings, Douglas D. -- Petroleum source rocks evaluation of the Permian Park City Group in the northeastern Great Basin, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho / Maughan, Edwin K. -- The Bruffey oil and gas seeps, Pine Valley, Eureka County, Nevada / Foster, Norman H., Howard, Eugene L., Meissner, Fred F. and Veal, Harry K. -- Petroleum exploration possibilities in northwestern Nevada / Willden, Ronald -- Geophysics -- Gravity exploration for petroleum in Railroad Valley, Nevada / Guion, Douglas J. and Pearson, WIlliam C. -- Seismic exploration in Railroad Valley, Nevada / Vreeland, John H. and Berrong, Bert H. -- Great Basin Field Conference -- Foreword -- Conference Schedule and Symposium program October 7-11, 1979 -- Nevada Field Trip Committees -- Master Road Log Map -- Correlation chart -- Explanation for road log maps -- First day -- road log form Las Vegas to Keystone thrust area and Valley of Fire via Frenchman Mountain / Bohannon, Robert G. and Bachhuber, Fred -- Second day -- road log from Las Vegas to Ely, Nevada, via Caliente and Pioche / Tschanz, Charles M., Orkild, Paul P. and Poole, Forrest G. -- Third day -- road log from Ely to Garden Pass via Ruth Pit, Moorman Ranch, and Eureka with extensions to Bruffey Seep and Devils Gate / Poole, Forrest G., Thorman, Charles and Howard, E.L. -- Fourth day -- road log form Ely to Las Vegas via Eagle Springs and Trap Spring oil fields, Lunar Crater, Warm Springs, and Pahranagat Valley / French, D., Kleinhampl, Jensen, M.L. and Tschanz, C.M.

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• 5625600
• SCSB-10178907

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