GSA Field Guide 11: Field Guide to Plutons, Volcanoes, Faults, Reefs, Dinosaurs, and Possible Glaciation in Selected Areas of Arizona, California, and Nevada

Abstract

The mid-Miocene Wilson Ridge pluton and River Mountains volcanic section, Lake Mead area of Nevada and Arizona: linking a volcanic and plutonic section / Denise Honn and Eugene I. Smith -- Late Paleozoic deformation in central and southern Nevada / Pat Cashman [and others] -- Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone / Kurt L. Frankel [and others] -- Ediacaran and early Cambrian reefs of Esmeralda County, Nevada: non-congruent communities within congruent ecosystems across the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic boundary / Stephen M. Rowland, Lynn K. Oliver, and Melissa Hicks -- Magmatism and tectonics in a tilted crustal section through a continental arc, eastern Transverse Ranges and southern Mojave Desert / Andrew P. Barth [and others] -- Cenozoic evolution of the abrupt Colorado plateau-basin and range boundary, northwest Arizona: a tale of three basins, immense lacustrine-evaporite deposits, and the nascent Colorado River / James E. Faulds, Keith A. Howard, and Ernest M. Duebendorfer -- Interpretation of Pleistocene glaciation in the Spring Mountains of Nevada: pros and cons / Jerry Osborn, Matthew Lachniet and Marvin (Nick) Saines -- Quaternary volcanism in the San Francisco volcanic field: recent basaltic eruptions that profoundly impacted the northern Arizona landscape and disrupted the lives of nearby residents / S.L. Hanson, W. Duffield, and J. Plescia -- The Spirit Mountain batholith and Secret Pass Canyon volcanic center: a cross-sectional view of the magmatic architecture of the uppermost crust of an extensional terrain, Colorado River, Nevada-Arizona / Nicholas P. Lang [and others] -- Devonian carbonate platform of eastern Nevada: facies, surfaces, cycles, sequences, reefs, and catastrophic Alamo impact breccia / John E. Warme, Jared R. Morrow, and Charles A. Sandberg -- Dinosaurs and dunes! Sedimentology and paleontology of the Mesozoic in the Valley of Fire state park / Joshua W. Bonde [and others].