TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication
List of stops
List of figures
List of plates
List of topical discussions

Acknowledgements

Introduction
First Day
Second Day
Third Day
Fourth Day

References cited

LIST OF STOPS

    First Day

  1. Lamont Odet Vista Point, San Andreas overlook
  2. View of El Paso Fault, Red Rock Canyon
  3. Lower Ricardo formation, Red Rock Canyon
  4. View of pediment surface, Red Rock Canyon
  5. View of Little Lake volcanics
  6. Little Lake Hotel
  7. Fossil Falls
  8. Manzanar Relocation Camp
  9. Second Day

  10. Knopf's Knob- basalt intrusive into quartz monzonite
  11. View of Volcanic Tableland and Tahoe moraine
  12. Bishop aqueduct at Sand Canyon
  13. Pine Creek Pack Station
  14. Glacial outwash gravels, Old Sherwin grade road
  15. Columnar jointing in Bishop tuff
  16. Convict Lake parking lot; Mt. Morrison pendant
  17. Hot Creek parking lot
  18. Big Pumice cut; Bishop tuff on Sherwin till
  19. Just east of Sherwin Summit; tuff-till relations
  20. Owens River Gorge section
  21. Owens River Gorge exposures
  22. McMurray Meadows road; Palisade Crest intrusives
  23. Third Day

  24. Junction of Westgard Road and Waucoba Road
  25. Toll House Spring
  26. South end of Cedar Flat; views of White Mountains
  27. Sierra View
  28. Schulman Bristlecone Grove
  29. Sage Hen Flat Pluton
  30. Views of Deep Springs Valley
  31. View of northeast end of Poleta Folds area
  32. Contact zone of Beer Creek pluton
  33. Fault scarp features, east of Deep Springs Lake
  34. View of lauderbacks , Deep Springs Valley
  35. Zeck's fold area, Poleta Folds
  36. Fossil locality, southwest side of Cedar Flat
  37. Fourth Day

  38. Outcrops of Precambrian Wyman Formation
  39. Devil's Gate; outcrops of Hines Tongue of Reed Dolomite
  40. Hines Road section; Wyman to Harkless
  41. Summit of Hines Road; view of Sierra Nevada
  42. Papoose Flat pluton contact, north side
  43. South side of Papoose Flat pluton
  44. West end of Papoose Flat; view of Wyman overturn
  45. Alabama Hills; exfoliation of granite

LIST OF FIGURES

  1. General field trip route map
  2. Cross section across El Paso Fault
  3. Sketch of pediment surface, Red Rock Canyon
  4. Sketches illustrating volcanic and canyon cutting history at Little Lake
  5. Block diagram of Sierra Nevada- Owens Valley- Inyo Mountains
  6. Cross section of Owens Valley and the Alabama Hills
  7. Route map for second day
  8. Published U.S.G.S. geologic quadrangle maps
  9. Sketch of the Coyote Warp
  10. Map of the Volcanic Tableland and environs
  11. Tioga and Tahoe moraine relations, Bishop Creek Canyon
  12. Geologic map of the Pine Creek pendant
  13. Geologic map of the Palisade Crest intrusive series
  14. Quartz, K-feldspar, and plagioclase modes, Palisade Crest
  15. Horizontal variations, mineralogy and specific gravity, Palisade Crest
  16. Vertical variations of modal mineralogy of Tinemaha granodiorite
  17. Geologic map of the Sugar Loaf area
  18. Route map for third day
  19. Late Precambrian- Early Cambrian stratigraphy, White-Inyo Range
  20. Geologic map of Mesozoic plutons, White-Inyo Range
  21. Geologic map of the Sage Hen Flat pluton
  22. Geologic map of the Birch Creek pluton
  23. Cross section, Birch Creek pluton
  24. Emplacement history, Birch Creek pluton
  25. Geologic map of the Anvil pluton
  26. Geologic map of the Marble Canyon pluton
  27. Geologic map, northeastern Poleta Folds area
  28. Cross section, northeastern Poleta Folds area
  29. Sketch of lauderbacks , Deep Springs Valley
  30. Geologic map of "Zeck's Fold", Poleta Folds area
  31. Cross sections across "Zeck's Fold", Poleta Folds area
  32. Route map for fourth day
  33. Geologic map of Papoose Flat pluton
  34. Generalized geologic map of Papoose Flat pluton
  35. Comparison of stratigraphic sections, Papoose Flat region
  36. Details of structural attenuation, Papoose Flat region
  37. Left-lateral marginal faults, Papoose Flat pluton
  38. Map and cross section interpretation, Papoose Flat pluton

LIST OF PLATES

  1. Road cut adjacent to San Andreas Fault, Palmdale
  2. Ricardo Formation, Red Rock Canyon
  3. Faulted tuff of Ricardo Fm., Red Rock Canyon
  4. Photo mosaic of central Owens Valley
  5. Aerial view of part of Big Pine Volcanic Field
  6. Sierran front at Big Pine
  7. Aerial view of central White-Inyo Range
  8. Pine Creek Canyon
  9. Big Pumice Cut; Bishop tuff-Sherwin till
  10. Owens River Gorge section
  11. Radiating columnar jointing, Bishop tuff
  12. White Mountain front, north of Big Pine
  13. Contact of McMurray Meadows and Tinemaha granitoids
  14. Reed Flat, Bristlecone Pine area, White Mountains
  15. Contact of Beer Creek and Joshua Flat granitoids
  16. Contact of Joshua Flat monzonite and Cambrian rocks
  17. Xenoliths of Eureka Valley monzonite in Joshua Flat monzonite
  18. Deformed Mule Spring Limestone near intrusive contact
  19. Contact of Joshua Flat and Cambrian rocks, Marble Canyon pluton
  20. Xenoliths of monzodiorite in Joshua Flat monzonite, Marble Canyon pluton
  21. Xenoliths of Poleta marble in Anvil pluton
  22. Aerial view of Deep Springs Valley region
  23. Fault scarp, east side of Deep Springs Valley
  24. Faults cutting alluvial fans, Deep Springs Valley
  25. Synclinal fold, Poleta Folds area
  26. Monoclinal fold in Waucobi Lake beds
  27. Buttress unconformity, alluvial gravels on Wyman Formation
  28. Aerial view of Papoose Flat
  29. View of Papoose Flat
  30. Foliation in Papoose Flat Pluton
  31. Folded aplite dike, Papoose Flat pluton
  32. Quartz veins in Papoose Flat pluton
  33. Sills of quartz monzonite in Campito Formation
  34. Calc-silicate boudins in Harkless Formation
  35. Quartzite boudins in Harkless Formation
  36. Closely spaced joints, Papoose Flat pluton
  37. Wyman overturn, northeast Papoose Flat area

TOPICAL DISCUSSIONS

  • San Andreas Fault
  • Owens Valley
  • Bishop Tuff
  • Pine Creek Mine
  • Mt. Morrison pendant
  • Long Valley caldera
  • Big Pumice cut
  • Owens River gorge
  • Palisades Crest granitoids
  • White-Inyo structure and stratigraphy
  • Sage Hen Flat pluton
  • Birch Creek pluton
  • Eureka Valley-Joshua Flat-Beer Creek plutons
  • Marble Canyon pluton
  • Anvil pluton
  • Deep Springs Valley
  • Poleta Folds
  • Papoose Flat pluton



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