Golconda Thrust Explained

The Golconda Thrust is a major oceanic terrane that was thrust over central and northern Nevada, North America, in possibly sometime between the Late Permian and the late Jurassic.^[1] It is considered equivalent to the Tobin thrust fault.^[2]

It contains the Havallah sequence.^[3]

Timing the Golconda Thrust

The time of the Golconda Thrust is not perfectly clear, and it may pre-date the Sonoma orogeny.^[4] Other references suspect it appears to have thrust during the Sonoma orogeny.^[5]

See also

• Geology of Nevada
• Golconda, Nevada
• Sonomia Terrane

External links and references

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Pacific Section SEPM . The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database . 23 December 2018.
2. Web site: Age Relationships of the Golconda Thrust Fault, Sonoma Range, North-Central Nevada . GeoScienceWorld . 1 January 1975 . 23 December 2018 . Silberling, N. J..
3. Web site: Structure of the Havallah sequence, Golconda allochthon, Nevada: Evidence for prolonged evolution in an accretionary prism . 1985 . 23 December 2018 . Brueckner, Hannes K. . Snyder, Walter .
4. Web site: The Pre-Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of the Clearwater Canyon, Sonoma Range, Nevada: Implications for the Timing of Golconda Thrusting . Core . 24 December 2018 . Dunston, Jacob Franklin.
5. Web site: Geologic Events During Permian-Triassic Time Along the Pacific Margin of the United States . The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database . 1973 . 24 December 2018 . Silberling, N. J..