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Preliminary geologic map of the Little Piute Mountains, San Bernardino County, California

Open-File Report 95-598
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr95598

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Abstract

Introduction The Little Piute Mountains in the eastern Mojave Desert expose a series of folds and thrust faults involving metamorphosed Paleozoic strata (Miller and others, 1982; Stone and others, 1983). Detailed mapping of these structures was undertaken to help elucidate regional Mesozoic structural evolution. Earlier geologic maps were prepared by Cooksley (1960a,b,c,d, generalized by Bishop, 1964) and Stone and others (1983). Deformed and metamorphosed Paleozoic and Triassic rocks form a stratal succession that was originally deposited in shallow seas on the North American craton. Based on lithologic sequence the units are correlated with unmetamorphosed equivalents 200 km to the northeast in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, and 35-50 km to the west in the Marble, Ship, and Providence Mountains, California (Stone and others, 1983). The Paleozoic sequence rests nonconformably on a heterogeneous basement of polydeformed Early Proterozoic gneiss (Miller and others, 1982; Wooden and Miller, 1990). Triassic and older rocks were deformed, metamorphosed to staurolite or andalusite grade, and intruded concordantly at their base by Late Cretaceous granodiorite (Miller and others, 1982).

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Preliminary geologic map of the Little Piute Mountains, San Bernardino County, California
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 95-598
DOI 10.3133/ofr95598
Year Published 1995
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s) U.S. Geological Survey
Description 18 p.
Country United States
State California
County San Bernardino County
Other Geospatial Little Piute Mountains
Scale 10000
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