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Reynolds, John M. (1997) An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, John Wiley & Sons.
(on reserve in GPS library)
($60 at Caltech bookstore, ~$50 used with shipping included at several online locations)


Suggested Reading:

William A. Bryant, Deep springs fault,Inyo County, California, An example of the use of relative-dating techniques, California Geology, November, 1989, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 243-255. ( PDF )

Stockli, D. F, T. A. Dumitru, M. O. McWilliams and K. A. Farley, Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the White Mountains, California and Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, July 2003, Vol. 115, No. 7, pp. 788-816. (Link to PDF)

Required Reading:

Reheis, Marith. C. and Timothy H. Dixon, Kinematics of the Eastern California shear zone: Evidence for slip transfer from Owens and Saline Valley fault zones to Fish Lake Valley fault zone, Geology, 1996, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 339-342. (PDF)

Reheis, Marith. C. and Thomas L. Sawyer, Late Cenozoic history and slip rates of the Fish Lake Valley, Emigrant Peak, and Deep Springs fault zones, Nevada and California, GSA Bulletin, 1997, Vol. 109, No. 3, pp. 280-299. (PDF)

Lee, J. C., M. Rubin and A. Calvert, Quaternary faulting history along the Deep Springs Fault, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2001, Vol. 113(7), pp 855-869. ( Link to PDF )

References:

Hearn, Elizabeth H. and Eugene D. Humphreys, Kinematics of the Southern Walker Lane Belt and motion of the Sierra Nevada block, California, JGR, Vol. 103, Nov. 10 1998, pp 27033-27049. (PDF)

Oldow, J.S., C.L.V. Aiken, J.L. Hare, J.F. Ferguson, and R.F. Hardyman, Active displacement transfer and differential block motion within the central Walker Lane, western Great Basin, Geology, 2001, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp.19-22. (PDF)

Oldow, John S., Gretchen Kohler, and Raymond A. Donelick, Late Cenozoic extensional transfer in the Walker Lane strike-slip belt, Nevada, Geology, 1994, Vol. 22, pp. 637-640. (PDF)