Geology References for Walker Lane

Axen, G.J., W. J.Taylor, and J. M. Bartley, 1993, Space-time patterns and tectonic controls of Tertiary extension and magmatism in the Great Basin of the western United States: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 56-76.

Bonham, H.F. and Papke, K.G., 1969, Geology and mineral deposits of Washoe and Storey Counties, v Nevada; Nevada Bureau of Mines Bulletin No. 70, 140pp.

Cashman, P.H. and S-A.Fontaine, in review. Kinematics of deformation in the Pyramid Lake domain, northern Walker Lane (submitted to Tectonics)

Dilles, J. H., and P. B. Gans, 1995, The chronology of Cenozoic volcanism and deformation in the Yerington area, western Basin and Range and Walker Lane: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 474-486.

Dille, J.H., and Proffett, J.M., 1991, Mesozoic and Cenozoic Geology of the Yerrington District, Lyon County, Nevada: Geology and Ore Deposits of the Great Basin (Field Trip Guidebook Compendium), v. 2, p. 1015-1022.

Evernden, J. F„ D. E. Savage, G. H. Curtis, and G. T. James, 1964, Potassium-argon dates and the Cenozoic mammalian chronology of North America: American Journal of Science, v. 262, p. 145-198.

Garside, L. J., Bonharn, H. F., Jr., Tingley, J. V., and McKen, E. H., 1993, Potassium-argon ages of igneous rocks and alteration mininerals associated with mineral deposits, western and southern Nevada and eastern California: Isochron/West, no. 59, p. 17-23.

Golia, R. T., and J. H. Stewart, 1984, Depositional environments and paleogeography of the Upper Miocene Wassuk Group, west-central Nevada: Sedimentary Geology, v. 38, p. 159-180.

Hardyman, R. F., and J. S. Oldow, 1991, Tertiary tectonic framework and Cenozoic history of the central Walker Lane, Nevada, in G. L. Raines, R. E. Lisle, R. W. Schafer, and W. H. Wilkinson, eds., Geology and Ore Deposits of the Great Basin, Reno, NV, Geological Society of Nevada, p. 279-301.

Koehler, B. M., 1989, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Late Pliocene (Blancan) v Hallelujah Formation, Long Valley, Lassen County, California, Washoe County, Nevada: MS thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, 120 p.

Oldow, J.S. and Aiken, C.L.V., 1998, Strain partitioning in the central Walker Lane transtensional belt, western Great Basin (abs.): Geol. Soc. America Abs. with Programs, v. 30, no. 5, p. 57.

Stewart, J.H., 1988, Tectonics of the Walker Lane belt, western Great Basin: Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformation in a zone of shear, in Ernst, W.G., ed., Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the western United States: Rubey Volume 7, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood cliffs, N.J., p.683-713.