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Geology:
Geomorphic Provinces
Mojave Desert Geomorphic ProvinceThe Mojave is a broad interior region of isolated mountain ranges separated by expanses of desert plains. It has an interior enclosed drainage and many playas. There are two important fault trends that control topography a prominent NW-SE trend and a secondary east-west trend (apparent alignment with Transverse Ranges is significant). The Mojave province is wedged in a sharp angle between the Garlock Fault (southern boundary Sierra Nevada) and the San Andreas Fault, where it bends east from its northwest trend. The northern boundary of the Mojave is separated from the prominent Basin and Range by the eastern extension of the Garlock Fault. List of Faults & Fault ZonesSierra Nevada Fault ZoneAirport Lake Fault Zone Little Lake Fault Zone Wilson Canyon Fault Tank Canyon - Garlock Fault Zone - El Paso Fault - Mule Spring and Leach Lake Faults Owl Lake Fault Granite Mountains Fault Zone Avawatz Mountains Fault Zone Soda Mountain Fault Baker Fault Red Pass Lake Fault Tiefort Mountains Fault Zone Goldstone Fault Blackwater Fault Bitter Springs Fault - Bicycle Lake Fault Gravel Hills - Harper Fault Zone Harper Lake Fault Lockhart and North Lockhart Faults - South Lockhart Fault Mt. General Fault Calico Fault Zone - Calico Fault - West Calico Fault Manix Fault Cady Fault Ludlow Fault South Bristol Mountains Fault Broadwell Lake Fault Lavic Lake Fault Pisgah Fault Rodman Fault Camp Rock Fault Lenwood Fault Helendale Fault Kramer Junction Area Faults - Kramer Hills Fault - Spring Fault - Leuhman Fault Blake Ranch Fault Mirage Valley Fault Llano Fault Johnson Valley Fault Homestead Valley Fault Emerson Fault Galway Lake Fault Hidalgo Fault Bullion Fault Cleghorn Lake Fault Pinto Mountain Fault Mesquite Lake Fault Copper Mountain Fault Old Woman Springs Fault and Silver Reef Fault North Frontal Fault Zone of the San Bernardino Mountains Arrastre Canyon Narrows Fault Tunnel Ridge Fault Grass Valley Fault Cleghorn Fault Waterman Canyon Fault |
Also see: Faults and Active Tectonics in the Mojave PreserveEvidence of faulting can be seen throughout the Mojave region. Faults range in scale and complexity from small, simple offset measurable in inches or feet to massive thrust faults, normal faults, and strike-slip faults that have displacements ranging upward to ...San Andreas FaultThe presence of the San Andreas fault was brought dramatically to world attention on April 18, 1906, when sudden ...Garlock FaultThe Garlock Fault is the defining fault between the Mojave Desert and Sierra Nevada, Basin and Range geomorphic provinces...EcologyThis section is the hot part of the Basin and ranges from the southern end of the Sierra Nevada and the north-northeastern side of the Transverse Ranges to Nevada and Arizona ... |
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