Angular unconformity, Death Valley, CA.
national park, talus, lava, strata
Intrusive contact: southern Sierra Nevada.
igneous, intrusive
Trace of San Andreas fault, CA
fault-controlled
Death Valley Salt Pan at Sunrise
precipitation
cross-cutting relations in canyon wall
Paleozoic rock is folded because of the Late Paleozoic-early Mesozoic compressional mountain-building; it is intruded by Jurassic age granitic rock, an early phase of Sierran magmatism that took place just to the west; the granitic rock is overlain by Late Cenozoic basalt flows, and everything is cut by a normal (extensional) fault. (Image ID#rainbowunconf-noteslr)
cross-cutting relations (pan)
A canyon wall on west side of Panamint Valley in SE California –part of Death Valley National Park. (Image ID# pan-rainbowunconf)
Sawtooth Peak
Sawtooth Peak (right) capped by Columbia River Basalt. Beneath it is granite of the Wallow Batholith –and off to the left, are the bedded rocks of the Martin Bridge Limestone. (Image ID# 140713-43s)
Sawtooth Peak, California
Sawtooth Peak (right) capped by Columbia River Basalt. Beneath it is granite of the Wallowa Batholith –and off to the left, are the bedded rocks of the Martin Bridge Limestone. (Image ID# 140713-43e)
Cretaceous Batholiths
Granitic Batholiths of Cretaceous age in western North America.
Intrusive Contact
granite, granitic, felsic
Cretaceous granodiorite: Mt. Whitney, CA
granite, granitic, cliffs, alpine
Granite and Moon.
felsic
Tilted Cambrian limestone
strata Peleozoic