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The Death Valley Fault Zone (DVFZ) is a right lateral-moving (dextral) geologic fault in eastern California. It runs from a connection with the Furnace Creek Fault Zone in the Amargosa Valley southward to a junction with the Garlock Fault. It is considered an integral part of the Walker Lane.
The Furnace Creek Fault system, located in what is now the northern part of Death Valley, started to move about 14 Ma and the Southern Death Valley Fault system likely began to move by 12 million years ago. [19] Both fault systems move with a right-lateral, or dextral, offset along strike-slip faults. With such faults, the opposite side of the ...
Death Valley is a graben—a downdropped block of land between two mountain ranges. [13] It lies at the southern end of a geological trough, Walker Lane, which runs north to Oregon. The valley is bisected by a right lateral strike slip fault system, comprising the Death Valley Fault and the Furnace Creek Fault.
The north-northwest end of the Walker Lane is between Pyramid Lake in Nevada and California's Lassen Peak [1] [2] where the Honey Lake Fault Zone, the Warm Springs Valley Fault, and the Pyramid Lake Fault Zone [3] meet the transverse tectonic zone forming the southern boundary of the Modoc Plateau and Columbia Plateau provinces.
The Death Valley is tectonically active, [27] with faults including the Black Mountains fault, Furnace Creek Fault, Grandview Fault, Northern Death Valley Fault, Southern Death Valley fault and Towne Pass Fault. [19] Thus, shorelines from the same lake stands are often not at the same elevation in various parts of the basin. [27]
Manly Beacon and Red Cathedral viewed from Zabriskie Point. The Amargosa Chaos is a series of geological formations located in the Black Mountains in southern Death Valley.In the 1930s, geologist Levi F. Noble studied the faulting and folding in the area, dubbing it the "Amargosa chaos" due to the extreme warping of the rock.
Death Valley, California reliably recorded a high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit on August 16, 2020, with a repeat on June 17, 2021.. A lack of water and a geography far below sea level contribute to ...
The Furnace Creek Fault Zone in eastern California. The Furnace Creek Fault Zone (FCFZ) is a geological fault that is located in Eastern California and southwestern Nevada. The right lateral-moving (dextral) [1] fault extends for some 200 km (120 mi) between a connection with the Death Valley Fault Zone in the Amargosa Valley and northward to a termination in the Fish Lake Valley of southwest ...