Archived report (descriptions no longer maintained)
Olinghouse fault zone (Class A) No. 1668
Last Review Date: 1999-03-26
| County(s) and State(s) |
WASHOE COUNTY, NEVADA |
| Physiographic province(s) |
BASIN AND RANGE |
| Reliability of location |
Good Compiled at 1:100,000 scale. |
| Length (km) | 18 km. |
| Average strike | N49°E |
| Sense of movement | Left lateral |
| Dip Direction | SE; N; S |
| Historic earthquake |
Olinghouse earthquake 1869 Pyramid Lake earthquake 1860 |
| Most recent prehistoric deformation | latest Quaternary (<15 ka) |
| Slip-rate category | Less than 0.2 mm/yr |
| References |
Bell, J.W., 1981, Quaternary fault map of the Reno 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada-California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-982, 62 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr81982. Bell, J.W., 1984, Quaternary fault map of Nevada—Reno sheet: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 79, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. Bell, J.W., 1984, Guidebook for selected Nevada earthquake areas (field trip 18), in Lintz, J., Jr., ed., Western geological excursions: Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Mackay School of Mines, 1984 Annual Meetings of the Geological Society of America, Guidebook, v. 4, p. 387-472. Bonham, H.F., 1969, Geology and mineral deposits of Washoe and Storey Counties, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 70, 140 p., 1 pl., scale 1:250,000. dePolo, C.M., 1998, A reconnaissance technique for estimating the slip rate of normal-slip faults in the Great Basin, and application to faults in Nevada, U.S.A.: Reno, University of Nevada, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 199 p. Dohrenwend, J.C., Schell, B.A., Menges, C.M., Moring, B.C., and McKittrick, M.A., 1996, Reconnaissance photogeologic map of young (Quaternary and late Tertiary) faults in Nevada, in Singer, D.A., ed., Analysis of Nevada's metal-bearing mineral resources: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 96-2, 1 pl., scale 1:1,000,000. Greene, R.C., Stewart, J.H., John, D.A., Hardyman, R.F., Silberling, N.J., and Sorensen, M.L., 1991, Geologic map of the Reno 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2154-A, scale 1:250,000. Sanders, C.O., and Slemmons, D.B., 1979, Recent crustal movements in the central Sierra Nevada-Walker Lane region of California-Nevada—Part III, The Olinghouse fault zone: Tectonophysics, v. 52, no. 1-4, p. 585-597. Sanders, C.O., and Slemmons, D.B., 1996, Geomorphic evidence for Holocene earthquakes in the Olinghouse fault zone, western Nevada: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 86, p. 1784-1792. Slemmons, D.B., McDonald, R.L., and Cluff, L., 1969, Surface faulting from the December 16, 1954, earthquake in Dixie Valley, Nevada: Earthquake Notes, v. 40, no. 2, p. 23. Yount, J.C., Bell, J.W., dePolo, C.M., Ramelli, A.R., Cashman, P.H., and Glancy, P.A., 1993, Neotectonics of the Walker Lane, Pyramid Lake to Tonopah, Nevada—Part II Road log, in Lahren, M.M., Trexler, J.H., Jr., and Spinosa, C., eds., Crustal evolution of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada: Reno, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Geological Society of America, Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain section meeting, Reno, Nevada, May 19-21, 1993, Guidebook, p. 391-408. |