Eastern Mojave Vegetation
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation
| Rex Hills, Nye County, Nevada. |
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The Stateline fault system is a dextral strikeslip
fault that, between latitudes 35°N and 37°N,
probably forms the eastern limit of the eastern
California shear zone–southern Walker Lane
belt.
The Rex Hills study site lies along a transpressional
left-bend between the Pahrump and
Amargosa segments of the Stateline fault system
where the central part of the Stateline fault
system crosses from Stewart Valley into southern
Amargosa Valley.
The Rex Hills are two small connected hills:
the NW hill is 40 m high and has a dome shape
with a diameter of ~900 m; the SE hill is 45 m
high, boat-hull shaped, and ~1500 m long by
~750 m wide.
The Rex Hills fault pattern exhibits a reverse
and a dextral strike-slip component. The dextral
component is expressed as drainage offsets with
a magnitude of up to ~10 m, commonly
associated with zones of highly fractured
clasts within the Plio-Pleistocene conglomerate
that show dextral sense of shear. The
thrust component is expressed as 0.3- to 2-m high
fault scarps.
Latitude: 36.347 Longitude: -116.268 (° decimal) Articles that refer to this location:
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M, Date and time this article was prepared:5:36:50 PM, 11/3/2024. | |