A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Normal fault, North Muddy Mountains, Nevada |
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| Description | Normal fault, North Muddy Mountains, Nevada. This image is a classic for showing how relative age dating of structural events is done. This image shows highly folded (probably by slumping) beds of the claystone and magnesite-rich Miocene Rainbow Gardens Member of the Horse Spring Formation, beveled flat and overlain across an angular unconformity by the Miocene conglomerate and sandstone. The entire package is then cut by a spectacular normal fault that clearly offsets the unconformity. |
| Chronostratigraphy | Miocene |
| Lithostratigraphy | Rainbow Gardens Member of Horse Spring Formation |
| Location | USA ▹ Nevada. North Muddy Mountains. |
| Photographer | Robert Varga. 1995. |
| Collection | Keck Structural Geology Slide Set #RV2. |
| Key words | fault, Nevada, unconformity, normal fault |
| Tech details | 396 KB. Outcrop. |
| GeoDIL number | 3066 |
| Copyright | Robert Varga |