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Quaternary faulting in Queen Valley, California-Nevada: Implications for kinematics of fault-slip transfer in the eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane belt

2008; Geological Society of America; Volume: 121; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1130/b26352.1

1943-2674

Jeffrey Lee, Jason Garwood, Daniel F. Stöckli, John Gosse,

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Research Article| March 01, 2009 Quaternary faulting in Queen Valley, California-Nevada: Implications for kinematics of fault-slip transfer in the eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane belt Jeffrey Lee; Jeffrey Lee † 1Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA †E-mail: jeff@geology.cwu.edu Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Jason Garwood; Jason Garwood 1Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA *Present address: 928 Roosevelt Street, Ridgecrest, California 93555, USA. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Daniel F. Stockli; Daniel F. Stockli 2Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar John Gosse John Gosse 3Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jeffrey Lee † 1Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA Jason Garwood *Present address: 928 Roosevelt Street, Ridgecrest, California 93555, USA. 1Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA Daniel F. Stockli 2Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA John Gosse 3Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada †E-mail: jeff@geology.cwu.edu Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 24 Oct 2007 Revision Received: 11 Apr 2008 Accepted: 14 Apr 2008 First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2674 Print ISSN: 0016-7606 © 2009 Geological Society of America GSA Bulletin (2009) 121 (3-4): 599–614. https://doi.org/10.1130/B26352.1 Article history Received: 24 Oct 2007 Revision Received: 11 Apr 2008 Accepted: 14 Apr 2008 First Online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Lee, Jason Garwood, Daniel F. Stockli, John Gosse; Quaternary faulting in Queen Valley, California-Nevada: Implications for kinematics of fault-slip transfer in the eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane belt. GSA Bulletin 2009;; 121 (3-4): 599–614. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B26352.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract New geologic map, tectonic, geomorphologic, and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) geochronologic data document the geometry, style, kinematics, and slip rates on late Quaternary faults within the Queen Valley, California-Nevada area. These data provide important insight into the kinematics of fault-slip transfer from the dextral White Mountains fault zone northward into the Mina deflection. Queen Valley is an ~16-km-long, NE-trending basin bounded to the south by the White Mountains and underlain by four major Pleistocene to Holocene alluvial-fan surfaces. Four different fault types and orientations cut and offset all but the youngest surfaces: (1) The normal-slip Queen Valley fault, which consists of a set of NE-striking, NW- and SE-dipping normal fault scarps that cut across the SE side of the valley and offset all but the youngest surfaces; (2) discontinuous NE-striking, sinistral faults exposed on the north side of the valley; (3) the NW-striking dextral Coyote Springs fault, which merges into (4) a set of E-W–striking thrust faults. Measured offsets across normal fault scarps developed within 10Be TCN-dated surfaces yield minimum late Pleistocene horizontal extension rates of 0.1–0.3 mm/yr. Documented fault geometries and slip orientations across Queen Valley suggest that fault-slip transfer models, such as the extensional displacement transfer, block rotation, and simple shear models, within the dextral fault system proposed for the eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane belt are not applicable to this part of the Mina deflection. Rather, dextral fault slip is transferred by both a restraining westward step and a releasing eastward step. Restraining and releasing bends have been extensively documented at a range of scales in strike-slip fault tectonic settings globally, and they have been simulated in analog models; thus, it is not surprising to document both within the ~630-km-long dextral shear zone that makes up the northern eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane belt. Our results, combined with published slip rates for the dextral White Mountain fault zone and the eastern sinistral Coaldale fault, suggest that transfer of dextral slip into the Mina deflection is partitioned into three different components: horizontal extension along the Queen Valley fault, thrust faulting that merges into the dominantly dextral slip along the Coyote Springs fault, and dominantly sinistral slip along the Coaldale fault. A velocity vector diagram of fault-slip partitioning across Queen Valley predicts a small component of contraction across the Coyote Springs and western Coaldale faults. Contraction across the Mina deflection is consistent with global positioning system data. An observed reduction in late Pleistocene fault-slip rates at the northern end of the eastern California shear zone and across the southwestern part of the Mina deflection may be explained by distribution of slip across a much broader zone than generally thought. 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