Timing And Style Of Miocene Deformation, Indian Pass And Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California, U.S.A. Krista Muela Advisor Dr. Gary Girty ABSTRACT The Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium is a complex structure extending from the San Andreas fault on the west to south-central Arizona on the east. It is well exposed between Indian Pass and Picacho State Recreation Area, SE California, where Neogene rocks reveal a complex record of Paleogene to early Miocene extension followed by...

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of mid- Miocene Volcanoes from the Ancestral Cascades of Northeastern California Steven Warner ABSTRACT Several well-preserved, mid- to late Miocene volcanoes in northeastern California could well have an origin associated with the late Tertiary development of the ancestral Cascades volcanic arc. To assess this possibility, we have analyzed seventeen samples from the Spanish Springs Peak volcano and ten additional samples from four nearby volcanoes for...

Tertiary Volcanism in the Southern Buffalo Hills, Smoke Creek, Nevada - Zachary Hasten, B.S. Candidate, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, Advisor Dr. Vic Camp - http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/people/students/theses/spring2010/zachary_ha...

Geologic Mapping and Petrochemical Stratigraphy of Southern Warner Valley, Southern Oregon, USA Michelle Dooley M.S. Candidate Department of Geological Sciences San Diego State University Advisor Dr. Vic Camp -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT The tectonomagmatic evolution of the northwestern margin of the Basin and Range Province is well expressed by the mafic-to-intermediate-to-silicic volcanic stratigraphy and structure of...