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Hunter Mountain- Saline Valley fault zone, Hunter Mountain section (Class A) No. 66b
Last Review Date: 2000-05-19
| County(s) and State(s) |
INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA |
| Physiographic province(s) |
BASIN AND RANGE |
| Reliability of location |
Good Compiled at 1:100,000 scale. |
| Length (km) | This section is 42 km of a total fault length of 60 km. |
| Average strike | N58°W (for section) |
| Sense of movement | Right lateral |
| Dip | 20° |
| Historic earthquake | |
| Most recent prehistoric deformation | latest Quaternary (<15 ka) |
| Slip-rate category | Between 1.0 and 5.0 mm/yr |
| References |
Bryant, W.A., 1989, Panamint Valley fault zone and related faults, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Fault Evaluation Report FER-206, 33 p., 1 pl., scale 1:62,500. Burchfiel, B.C., Hodges, K.V., and Royden, L.H., 1987, Geology of Panamint Valley-Saline Valley pull-apart system, California—Palinspastic evidence for low-angle geometry of a Neogene range-bounding fault: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 92, no. B10, p. 10,422-10,426. Dixon, T.H., Robaudo, S., Lee, J., and Reheis, M.C., 1995, Constraints on present day Basin and Range deformation from space geodesy: Tectonics, v. 14, p. 755-772. Jennings, C.W., 1994, Fault activity map of California and adjacent areas, with locations of recent volcanic eruptions: California Division of Mines and Geology Geologic Data Map 6, 92 p., 2 pls., scale 1:750,000. McAllister, J.F., 1956, Geologic map of the Ubehebe Peak quadrangle, California: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic quadrangle Map GQ-95, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500. Oswald, J.A., and Wesnousky, S.G., 1996, Character of active faulting along the Hunter Mountain fault zone [abs.]: Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 77, no. 46, p. F461. Petersen, M.D., Bryant, W.A., Cramer, C.H., Cao, T., Reichle, M.S., Frankel, A.D., Lienkaemper, J.J., McCrory, P.A., and Schwartz, D.P., 1996, Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for the State of California: California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 96-08 (also U.S. Geological Open-File Report 96-706), 33 p. Piety, L.A., 1995, Compilation of known and suspected Quaternary faults within 100 km of Yucca Mountain, Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-112, 404 p., 2 pls., scale 1:250,000. Reheis, M.C., 1991, Aerial photographic interpretation of lineaments and faults in late Cenozoic deposits in the eastern parts of the Saline Valley 1:100,000 quadrangle, Nevada and California, and the Darwin Hills 1:100,000 quadrangle, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-500, 6 p., 2 pls., scale 1:100,000. Ross, D.C., compiler, 1967, Generalized geologic map of the Inyo Mountains region, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-506, 1 sheet, scale 1:125,000. Schweig, E.S., III, 1989, Basin-Range tectonics in Darwin Plateau, southwestern Great Basin, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 652-662. Smith, R.S.U., 1976, Late-Quaternary pluvial and tectonic history of Panamint Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California: Pasadena, California Institute of Technology, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 300 p. Zellmer, J.T., 1980, Recent deformation in the Saline Valley region, Inyo County, California: Reno, University of Nevada, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 168 p., 7 pls., scale 1:50,000. Zhang, P., Ellis, M., Slemmons, D.B., and Mao, F., 1990, Right-lateral displacements and the Holocene slip rate associated with prehistoric earthquakes along the southern Panamint Valley fault zone—Implications for southern Basin and Range tectonics and coastal California deformation: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 95, no. B4, p. 4857—4872. |